Artist Statement-- DOMESTIC and DANGEROUS

    DOMESTIC AND DANGEROUS

After a twenty-year career as an exhibiting artist, I began working to break apart the formulas of my work to use my skills in an investigative, risk-taking search for work more unpredictable, emotionally freighted and connected more to me and my life.

I grew up in a small, South Texas town, isolated and isolated, safe and simple.  In that world my only art was the china, bric-a-brac and beautiful things  collected by my mother, cherished and displayed in our home. I began to draw and paint these objects when I was 5 years old.

Those recognizable objects persist in my art, though they continually change.  The objects are often charged with an emotional and psychological subtext. They become metaphors about  isolation and connection, and the family’s strength and fragility, in a world reassuringly domestic, and dangerous.