| Statement | |
Recently my work has taken a new direction. For many years I explored childhood memory, by creating images of the landscape through the eyes of a child. Today my focus is to study the landscape through my own eyes. I am interested in celebrating nature by using it in my work as a means to express those moments in time that pass quickly and cannot be put into words, yet linger in one's mind. My hope is to bring a fragment, or snapshot of the landscape into view, perhaps to bring the viewer to a place or time they have forgotten or have never experienced. To a moment that has no words, only feeling. The steel panels in the work are my canvas; where the landscape begins to take form from a simple line. Each mark traps ink that I apply to the surface of the steel, to provide a marriage of color and form. The glass and sometimes bronze elements provide a layering that is akin to the organics of nature. Most importantly, the glass is the light, bringing the viewer to a specific moment in time when light and nature combined are a language of their own. |
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| Education | |
| 1993-95 | Master of Arts in Art Education Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
| 1986-90 | Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Solo Museum Exhibitions | |
| 2005-06 | Growth, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA (Oct-Jan ’06) |
| Group Museum Exhibitions | |
| 2000-01 | Living in the Moment: The Celebration of Jewish Time, Skirball Musuem, NY and Cincinnati. |
| 2000-01 | Pilchuck Emerging Artists, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
| 1998-99 | The Havdalah Spice Container: Philip & Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL (October -June) |
| 1998-99 | Emerging Glass Artists, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA (Nov. - Feb.) |
| 1998 | Pacific Northwest Annual Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA |
| 1990 | University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| Solo Gallery Exhibitions | |
| 2008 | Untitled, Museo, Langley, WA (September) |
| 2006 | Untitled, Museo, Langley, WA (September) |
| 2004 | In The Shade of Green, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (November) |
| 2002 | Landscape, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (October) |
| 2001 | Reverie, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (October) |
| 2001 | New Sculpture, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA (July) |
| 1999 | Playgrounds, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (March & April) |
| Group Gallery Exhibitons | |
| 2008 | World Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA (August) |
| 2008 | Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, Museo, Langley, WA (July) |
| 2007 | SOFA Chicago, William Traver Gallery, Chicago, IL (November) |
| 2007 | Behind Glass: Creativity and Collaboration, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL |
| 2005 | 8th Annual Whidbey Island Glass Invitational, Museo, Langley, WA (July-August) |
| 2005 | Rhythms: Six Women Sculptors in Glass, Art6 Gallery, Richmond, VA (April) |
| 2005 | RISD Alumni Show, Trudy Labell Fine Art, Naples, FL (April) |
| 2005 | Spring Flirtations II, Tapestry Gallery, Sun Valley, ID (March) |
| 2002-03 | San Francisco Art Fair, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA (January) |
| 2002-03 | Small Works, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA (December) |
| 2002 | Group Show, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (January) |
| 2001 | SOFA Chicago, Jenkins Johnson Gallery (October) |
| 2001 | Introductions South, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (Aug-Sep) |
| 2001 | 1996-2001: 5th Anniversary Celebration, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (June) |
| 2000 | North American Glass 2000, Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT |
| 2000 | Selected Works, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2000 | 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery |
| 1999 | Realism Meets Abstraction, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA (September) |
| 1999 | Pilchuck Artists, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA (March-April) |
| 1998 | A Gathering of Glass, Sable V Fine Art Gallery, Wimberley, TX (Sept. - Nov.) |
| 1998 | Pilchuck Emerging Artists, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA (August) |
| 1994 | Graduate Show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI |
| Residencies | |
| 2002-03 | PONCHO Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 2001 | Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN. One week residency |
| 1997 | Emerging Artist-in-Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. Sept. 15-Nov |
| Awards | |
| 2006 | Pilchuck Glass School Tuition scholarship, Stanwood, WA |
| 2005-06 | Glass Eye Scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 2000-01 | Jon & Mary Shirley Glass Scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 2000 | Artist Trust GAP Award (Grants for Artist Projects), Seattle, WA |
| 2000 | Outstanding Emerging Glass Artist of 2000 , Hilbert Sosin Fund of the Florida Glass Art Alliance |
| 2000 | Third Prize, North American Glass 2000, Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT |
| 2000 | Niche Award Winner for Vessel of Light in the Judaica category |
| 1999-00 | Pentheroudakis Scholarship in Printmaking, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 1999-00 | Charles Anders Memorial Scholarship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA |
| 1999 | Niche Award Finalist for Havdalah Spice Container in the Judaica category |
| 1995-2000 | Pilchuck Glass School Tuition scholarship, Stanwood, WA |
| 1993 | Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Assistantship, Providence, RI |
| Publications | |
| The Arts Center. (2007). Behind Glass: Creativity and Collaboration. St. Petersburg, FL. | |
| Goodman, L. (February, 2005). Top Ten Picks. Art Forum. | |
| Bullis, Douglas. (2003). 100 Artists of the West Coast. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. | |
| Tacoma Art Museum. (2000). Clearly Brilliant, A Decade of Pilchuck Glass School's Emerging Artists in Residence. Tacoma, Washington. | |
| Birke, J. (June 25, 2000). Elusive glass is revealed, exquisitely. New Haven Register, Arts section, p.B1 | |
| The University of Hawaii Art Gallery. (2000). The 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition. Honolulu, Hawaii. | |
| Kangas, M. (1999). Lisa Zerkowitz at Bryan Ohno Gallery Seattle. Glass, 75, 53. | |
| Spertus Museum/Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. (1998). The Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize, The Havdalah Spice Container. Chicago: Spertus Press. | |
| Kangas, M. (August 27, 1998). Facets in Glass. Seattle Times, Visual Arts section, p.24. | |
| Hackett, R. (July 3, 1998). Northwest Annual at BAM is a nice surprise. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, What’s Happening section, p. 20. | |
| The Corning Museum of Glass (1998). New Glass Review 19. Neues Glas, p. 70-99. | |
