Nina thought you might like these, they are from her days in New York…

It is not an accident, my friend knew I would see the beauty in these parasols. A personal treasure to be admired. I decide to memorialize this wayward collection in photographs. As some are quite old and fragile they start to unravel in various ways as I photograph them.

This parasol collection of Ninas, now on their last legs are having one more moment in the sun.

Solar Bursts, eruptions emitted from our Sun's surface are the subject of these collages, watercolors and oil paintings. The original inspiration for this series were the online photos of the Earth’s Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Time lapse and multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet is used to capture technical images for astrophysicists to study the dynamics of our sun. These extraordinary photographic images offer the opportunity to explore light and color and to learn more about the Suns magnetic influence over our lives.

Years ago there was an art car in San Francisco with the words, “How many paychecks are you away from being homeless?” scrawled across its back window.

These mixed media paintings are my way of exploring the heart wrenching dystopian reality of the homeless crisis in our city.

There are fewer art cars and more homeless people today in our city. As an artist living in San Francisco witnessing the homeless crisis first hand, it is impossible not to acknowledge that this has happened during a time of a growing wealth disparity in the Bay Area.

The men, women and pets living on the street in abject poverty deserve societies help in finding a better way forward in the future.

These wool wall sculptures are part of an ongoing series made from hand pressed die cut soundproofing felt, linked and sewn onto a repurposed canvas background. I am interested in exploring the creative pathways that bridge conscious reality and the dream scape through experimental art making.

I created these two large scale sewn collages made from my own repurposed materials. Taking the time to create work based on the experience of living through a worldwide pandemic has been cathartic.

The pandemic banner “In Memoriam” was made to honor the 6.5 million people who have lost their lives to date. This loss of life has been unsettling in its magnitude. In these last three years memorials for covid and non-covid deaths often never happened and for me, as for many of you, we mourned alone. Creating this piece has been an outlet for coming to terms with the grief of losing family members, mentors, students and friends dear to me during this time. While searching through past artwork for materials to use, I came across a silk piece I created originally in 1988. To the watery blue background I added painting, vintage fabric and regalia. It was important to me to find a way to honor and celebrate the buoyancy, levity and light of the lives lost.

During the first year of this pandemic we collectively experienced isolation; for essential workers the isolation took the form of a single piece of cloth. The Pandemic Flag entitled “Unmasked” is made from leftover mask parts from the first few months of Covid 19, when masks were largely unavailable. Like many, I sewed masks to distribute during this tenuous period. This was a singular and somewhat frantic experience, which made me feel a bit less helpless because I felt I was actually doing something helpful.This flag is a tribute to the resilience and tenacity of frontline workers and the scientific community who helped us to survive this fragile and profound time in history.

Abstracted landscapes

In this series I look to nature and my immediate urban environment for composition and color. Using snapshots that I have taken for inspiration I often start with an idea but end up somewhere else entirely as the materials guide me down a path of exploration.

This series is an ongoing body of work influenced by dreams and waking hours. These paintings and collages explore the universal topic of human struggle by merging the worlds of real experiences and subconscious realms into a personal symbology.

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