Skyscapes
I often wonder; if you could see CO2, how would the earth appear as the ecosystem adjusts to the pollutants caused by human activity? Contemporary skies contain contrails, multiple layers of clouds, and exotic colors—light refracted by pollutants.
I collect imagery: photographs on my travels or scavenged from current media. I use technology as a tool to assemble, manipulate, distort, and alter lighting. This is the prism I apply to represent man’s impact. Viewers subtly detect the emanating effects, often reporting a fairy-tale or surreal response.
Often, buildings are superimposed: nostalgic buildings denote my human history, and new buildings my choices for the future. They cling tentatively to the lower edge of the painting leaving the impression that both could be sucked up into the maelstrom that is developing overhead in the clouds as nature self-corrects. |
Education
2004 BFA-Studio Painting (summa cum laude), University of Houston, Houston, TX
Solo Show
2007 New Landscape Paintings, Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
Group Exhibitions
2008 Gulf-South Regional Contemporary Exhibition, BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007-2008 Art on Loan, Houston City Hall Annex, (juried by Gus Kopriva), Houston, TX
2007 Texas Art Walk Juried Art Show, (juried by Paul Hester: Rice U. and Anna Mod: UH), Fayetteville, TX
2007 Texas National 2007 (juried by Manual: Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom), Nacogdoches, TX
2004 Diverse Painting Exhibition, University of Houston-University Center, Houston, TX
2004 U of H Juried Painting Show, (juried by Peter Precourt), Commerce Street Artists Warehouse (CSAW) Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Immodest Proposals: Unreasonable Public Art Projects for Houston (juried by Kevin Jefferies: Buffalo Bayou Art Park), CSAW Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 UH Graduate Show, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
Community Outreach
2006-2007 Encaustic Student Exhibitions, Art League Houston, Houston, TX
2004-2007 Luck of the Draw, Diverseworks Fundraisers, Houston, TX
2005-2006 $100 Box Charity Fundraisers, Bering & James/Mindpuddles Galleries, Houston. TX
2005 Spacetaker Benefit Auction, Buffalo Bayout Art Park, Houston, TX
2003 50/50 UH Art Auction and Graduate Scholarship Fundraiser, Houston, TX
Curator Experience
2004 Co-curator: Diverse Painting Exhibition, UH-University Center, Houston, TX
Awards/Residencies
2007 Centrum Institute, Creative Residency, Fort Worden, WA
2007 Art Guild of Rural Texas, Best of 2D Award, Fayetteville, TX
2004 Immodest Proposals: Unreasonable Public Art Projects for Houston, Houston (juried by Kevin Jefferies: Buffalo Bayou Art Park) Houston, TX
Articles/Publications
2008 The Great Landscape: The Next Big Thing, The Sky’s The Limit, Southwest Art Magazine, February 2008, p. 110, p. 118, Illus.
2007 Ann Williams, Skyscapes, Diane Wilkinson explores the skies, Experience, Vol. 2, Issue 3, p. 14, Illus., online by Jordan Hartt, Skyscapes, www.centrum.org
2007 Texas National 2007, The Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Catalogue essay by Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill, p. 33, Illus.
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