2022 “Exquisite Attention” CLEVELAND Hedge Gallery
Three Woman show : Cathie Bleck, Rebecca Cross, Taryn McMahon
Ends May 6, 2022
2019 “Immersion” CHICAGO Bert Green Fine Art
Ends June 22nd with an artist talk from 4-5pm : 8 S. Michigan Ave.
“Light can come from inside or out, above us or below. We can swim in light without seeing or dance in the dark with perfect illumination. Light within or between us can be the hardest to see…until we pause.”
“Charity” 48″ x 60″ Handmade pigments, kaolin clay, inks on panel SOLD
Charity Sunshine Tilleman Dick was the inspiration for this piece – created while she lived and inspired us while enduring her cancer treatment at the Cleveland Clinic. She was one of the most exquisite people I have ever known.
During a year and a half sabbatical, I traveled in France, Croatia, and sailed up Vancouver Island into Desolation Sound. The extraordinary diversity in the scope, texture, and movement of water in these flowing landscapes informed this body of work. l The resulting images explore feelings of intimacy, serene and humble submission, and occasional clarity I experienced during this reflective time. I worked rather intuitively, trusting my instincts as some evolved into ambitious and even experimental works.
My medium of kaolin clay / scraffito allows me to build up the surface in multiple layers of organic clay and pure pigments that I make by hand, creating a surface I can carve and wipe away using razors, sanding and etching type tools before adding inks which contain lacquer, occasional oil paint and a final protective UV varnish. This sculptural dimensional application, with layer upon layer of organic clay in relief and absence, often create light and unexpected textures and narratives of the imagination.
2015 “Avance” CHICAGO Firecat Projects
Fircat Projects invited me to exhibit my latest body of work “Avance”, an exhibition of thirty works, including kaolin clay, inks on panel as well as several works on paper and stone lithographs. Here is a studio shot of works in progress with my largest piece to date on the right “Sacrifice I” 48″ x 90″ and the full view below. I wish I could show you how much dimension there is in these works as well as the smoothness of the clay in areas. I feel like I came full circle with my medium of clay, handmade pigments in clay and lacquer based inks with this body of work.
“Sacrifice 1″ 48″x90” with three details below[/caption]
SOLD
The “Hohlweg” series came out of this new body of work (below). The Cleveland Clinic Foundation purchased a grouping for their collection. more Stay tuned for more developments in this series.
SOLD 
“Cave I, Hohlweg I, Cave II” Each panel 24″ x 36″ SOLD
Detail from “Inheritance II” AVAILABLE
“Fire” with details below AVAILABLE
2014 “Rarely Home” CLEVELAND Maria Neil Art Project
In August of 2014 I created a new body of work in black and white scratchboard archived and mounted on maple panels. It was exhibited in Cleveland along with Amy Casey’s highly detailed paintings in a show entitled “Rarely Home”.
I created my first lightbox using a laser cutter and an installation piece utilizing LED lighting and laser cutouts inside a suitcase viewed through a peephole. Eighteen of the twenty pieces from this show have sold to many new collectors and I am grateful to John Farina and Adam Tully at Maria Neil Art Project for the opportunity and all their efforts!
Here is the view through the lense of the suitcase
2013-2014 “frAGILITY” CHICAGO Packer Schopf Gallery
I began this frAGILITY series on Papyrus series in 2013. Each painting measures 12″x15″ ink, clay on papyrus and records a month in the calendar year of relationship. My first show of these pieces was in Chicago at Packer Schopf Nov-Jan 1 2014-it was great to be back in my hometown again and the response to this new work was great!
SOLD “August”
Detail from “July”
Additionally, I created 42 small 4″x6″ works of clay and inks on Butan paper (a form of papyrus made in Nepal) They represented a journal of daily life and our interaction with nature, emotion and details of remembrance. Most of the works have sold with the exception of about 6.
View from WIP in the studio of miniature paintings to be on exhibit ‘frAGILITY” exhibition