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 am an artist with a background as a professor in the cognitive sciences exploring how the human mind is built to interpret & impose meaning on the world. I am drawn to the unseen & unknown, with what is hidden, missing, the thing not before us -- creatures that live below the earth’s surface, goings-on behind closed doors, the mind of another. Our own subconscious desires & fears. At the boundary where seen meets unseen, we catch glimpses of the veiled: salamanders beneath an uprooted tree, a stranger’s bedroom through a fluttering drape, our mind’s agitations hinted at by a dream recalled. Some things are hidden in plain sight, overlooked as we go through the world preoccupied, blithely assuming we know a thing. Once we know, we no longer look. Not looking, we cease to know. My works can be as much about what is notthere as they are about what they depict.
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My artistic processes themselves embody this contrast of known/unknown, visible/hidden. Painting gives immediate feedback – a developing painting stands bare before me at every moment, revealing its gifts and flaws. I make a stroke and see instantly the outcome – of the color I laid down, the scope of my gesture, the strength or hesitancy of my touch. I love the frank honesty that is a painting in progress. A print in the works has secrets, and I will only fully know my print at the final moment when I lift the paper from the plate. I can develop a plate’s surface textures, lines, marks and shapes, the amounts of ink, their layers & viscosities & translucencies & colors. But I’m a collaborator rather than sole creator – I provide ingredients, which then do what they choose, beyond my curious eyes, when plate and paper are put on the press bed and run beneath the roller. On the bed, beneath the blankets, this hidden encounter occurs; pressed tightly against each other, inks and paper merge and become one, and a print is created. Hot stuff! This is the gift & magic of printmaking.
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Bachelor of Arts, McGill University​​
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PhD in Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology​​
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Professor Emerita, Yale University​
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