Address: Highland, Wisconsin

E-mail: callaloo@earthlink.net

I am fascinated with human beings. With the sun and moon of us. With how we get along. How we hit and miss each other. Lose our way. Find another. How we sing and why we're silent. What pulls us up. Or under. Brings us wonder.

And while I paint some people---mainly figures abiding in my imagination---crows have taken center stage. They are mirrors. I look for them and listen for them everywhere. I trace their shape in the sky and in the treetops, even when they are hidden and all there is of them is cawing in the hills or beyond. My paintings reflect both their iconic shape and how they choose to be seen in this world, as well as the times when they wish only to be heard, when they've led me to places that only echo their existence. Shadow landscapes.

I use a myriad of materials in addition to oil paint. They include: wax and alkyd mediums, charcoal, pastels and numerous drawing media on canvas, linen, wood and paper.

Solo Exhibitions

2010
This Is My River, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008
One Blue Morning, Uncommon Ground Devon, Chicago, IL

2007
New Works, At the Gallery, Oak Park, IL

2006
The Unseeable Animal, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
Incarnations, Havana Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999
What is True, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions

2010
Texas National 2010, juried by Judy Pfaff, The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
Menagerie, Brewery Pottery, Mineral Point, WI
Arterial Space, Salvage One, Chicago, IL

2009
Small Works, Ysla Battrell Studio, Wilmette, IL
Faces and Places, Brewery Pottery, Mineral Point, WI
May Garden Market, Ysla Battrell Studio, Wilmette, IL

2008
Winter Juried Exhibition, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI
Birds of a Feather, Brewery Pottery, Mineral Point, WI

2007
New Paintings, Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL
Devils & Beasts, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Marks on Paper, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
Animals & Insects, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, IL

2006
Open to Imagination, Brewery Pottery, Mineral Point, WI

2005
Art Woman, Appleton Art Center, Appleton, WI
New Paintings, Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL

2004
Under the Big Top, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
The White Show, The Gathering Place for Art, Chicago, IL
Small Works, Gallery IN46403, Gary, IN
Nesting, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL
Winter Arts Festival*, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL - *Curator's Choice

2003
Holiday Exhibition, AnamArt Gallery, Naperville, IL
Havana Holiday, Havana Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Works, Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL
Art of All, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL
Women's Day, Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Chicago Art Open 2003, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL
Mighty Midwest Bienniel 2003, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
Aspects of Nature, Gillock Gallery, Evanston, IL
Spirits on the Path, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
Animal Images, Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago, IL
New Works, Seebeck Gallery, Kenosha, WI
Winter Arts Festival*, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL - *Curator's Choice

2002
Creativity & Transformation, Koehnline Gallery, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Works in Progress, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL
Portraits: Working Artists, Café 28, Chicago, IL
PUSH pull, curated by JB Daniel, Pullman Studio, Chicago, IL
Chicago Art Open 2002, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL
Around the Coyote Arts Festival*, Chicago, IL - *Curator's Choice
Winter Arts Festival, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL

2001

Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

2000
Winter Juried Exhibition, Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI
Yield to Green, TECHstil Gallery, Benton Harbor, MI
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

1999
Winter Juried Exhibition, Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI
Chicago Art Open 1999, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL
Expression of Individual Spirit: Self-Portrait, The Women's Center/Toucan Gallery, Billings, MT
Around the Coyote Arts Festival*, Chicago, IL - *Curator's Choice
12th Annual Women's Works Exhibit*, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL - Jurors: Judith Nagel, Mary K. O'Shaughnessy, Susan Sensemann - *Purchase Award

1998
Winter Juried Exhibition, Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI
Chicago Art Open 1998, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
14th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL - Jurors: Barry Blinderman, Art Kleinman, Ann Wiens

1997
Best of the Coyote, Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

1996
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

Field Guide to Prose Poetry (cover)
Rose Metal Press, Brookline MA, 2010

Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (cover)
Rose Metal Press, Brookline MA, 2009

Venus Examines Her Breast (cover)
Poems by Maureen Seaton, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh PA, 2004

Her Heart Calendar 2004
Fujisawa Healthcare Inc, Deerfield IL, Fall 2003
Jurors: Victoria Lautman, Judy Ledgerwood, Mia Park, Amanda Puck

The Anderson Arts Center 10th Anniversary Calendar for 2003
Kenosha, WI, Fall 2002

The Art Scene, Chicago 2000
Crow Woods Publishing, Fall 2000
Jurors: Robert G. Donnelley, Jennifer Robertson, Chuck Thurow

1988 B.A. in Studio Art /Lawrence University, Appleton WI
Recipient of Elizabeth Richardson Award

2004 - Present: Co-owner, Otter Creek Arts Studio, Highland, WI
1998 - 2002 Associate Director, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
1993 - 1997 Framing Consultant/Photography Assistant, freelance, Chicago IL
1990 - 1993 Associate Editor, College Bound, Chicago IL
1988 - 1989 Curatorial Assistant, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI