PHOEBE
Complex psychological portraits emerge from assemblages of found objects. Common pieces of everyday life unite to unveil universal emotions of the human experience. They speak a language of visual overload, tempting exploration to uncover everything from the absurd to the absurdly sublime. The juxtaposition of the literal and the ethereal create a tension where culture collides and colludes.
Memory provoking discoveries tease the inner and outer self. Honoring the link between the known and the unknown, the viewer injects themselves into a world of the relatable and their own extremely personal unique life experience. This visual stimulation promotes interpretation that satisfies peoples curiosity and ties them together, binding diverse backgrounds and differences of thought.
My new form of expression, not unlike the Memory Towers or Remembrance Jugs of the late 19th and early 20th Century craft, not only evokes the personal meaning and the spiritual history of an object, but hopefully finds new purpose in transforming memories of life itself, past, present, and future, into visual delights.
I studied art from an early age taking classes at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Then when I was ten years old I moved to Utah and was given special permission to study under Alvin Gittins in an adult figure drawing class at the Art Barn.
I graduated with Honors receiving a BFA from Utah State University.
My Art was chosen to be on permanent collection in the Student Union BYU Hawaii Campus.
After being a Sterling Scholar in Art, I received the Glen Edwards Award of Excellence, his best painting student at USU.
I was selected to do artwork that was sent to the moon with James Irwin(fellow East High School Alumni) on an Apollo Moon Mission, and Amy Carter hung my art in the White House.
One Woman Show at the Art Ranch, and the Teton Bookstore in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Permanent Collection in the Kamuela Women's Museum, Kamuela, Big Island, Hawaii
Presidents Show, Library Square Gallery, SLC.
Winter Show at Finns in SLC.
92 Annual Spring Salon 2nd Place AWARD "JOAN"
Springville Museum of Art (April 20-July9,2016)