​Solo Exhibition “Homes of Strangers” opens Friday May 3rd, at Prairie Arts Center in Princeton, IL.  Opening reception will be Friday May 3rd, from 6-8pm.  
PAC is located at 24 Park Avenue East, Princeton, IL, 61356.   The gallery is open 1-3pm on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of May. 
Homes of Strangers is a collection of new paintings primarily inspired by visits home to Princeton, IL.  The frequent visits home to be with family and spend time with aging parents sparked the desire to document this place and time.  The historic homes on the blocks seen on walks around my parents’ home become stoic acquaintances whom I have seen for a lifetime but yet they are still like strangers to me.  Homes like bodies, enclose whole universes of experience.  Despite attempts at empathy, we do not know the lives they have lived.  The works utilize observation of  people and places known and unknown to the artist.  Touching on notions of intimacy as well as the unknowable other represented in the closed doors and windows of the homes of strangers.   

Saturday, April 20th from 6-9pm  I will be live painting at the 
Sun Prairie Public Library  Love Your Library Gala event.  This ticketed after-hours event benefits the Library Expansion and Renovation Project at Sun Prairie Public Library.  I will be painting live at the event and the painting will be auctioned off at the end of the evening.  Tickets are $60 and available to purchase on the library website: sunlibfoundation.org

Pictured is a vintage Rowe Pottery Works ceramic urn that has inspired the painting for the event.  Rowe Pottery Works is a functional pottery shop in Cambridge, Wisconsin that has been around since 1975.  This lovely green glazed crock will be filled with sun flowers, muted blue-green eucalyptus sprigs, and blush pink tea roses and white lillies. This floral still-life will be painted live at the event on a 16x20 inch canvas.

Come watch me paint and support the Sun Prairie Public Library Renovation and Expansion Project! 

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