I’m a painter and printmaker living, teaching and making art in Connecticut. At Verdigris Gallery and Printmaking Studio in Essex, CT, I offer small-group classes and individual instruction, and engage in the mysterious, often magical and occasionally maddening process of Making Art.​
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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I came to art through a different door. I have always been engaged by how the human mind constructs reality – how we impose structure and meaning on the world. As a cognitive scientist, my research asked foundational questions such as: What is an individual? When does identity persist through transformation, and what types of transformation create rupture, or radical change? These same questions animate my visual practice. I focus sustained attention on a single object, in a form of portraiture. Whether a recognizable object or an abstract form, I work through processes of iteration, variation, and reduction as a means of stress-testing its meaning, exploring the conditions under which a thing coheres or retains its nature, and what causes it to shift, fracture, or metamorphose.
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I don’t work in editions. Each print is a unique encounter – it is variation of the singular that interests me. I use printmaking because of its capacity for evolution of an image over time. My processes include trace monotype, viscosity resist, offset transference, and reductive techniques, which let form emerge through memory, reversal, and removal; and etching, intaglio and relief, which allow iterations of form under conditions of change. These are not just my methods but also my conceptual tools for pursuing the edges of identity, the boundary line between coherence and fragmentation, continuity and transformation.
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Bachelor of Arts, McGill University​​
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PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology​​
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Professor Emerita, Yale University​
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