DRAWINGS &
MixeD Media on Paper

2023 - 2025

My visual art practice draws on a lifetime of creativity that includes acting, dance, writing, editing, photography, and quilting. While the media I’ve explored are wide-ranging, each strengthened my creative intuition and voice. Drawings started pouring out of me spring 2023 shortly after my husband had a successful kidney transplant and coinciding with the 10-year anniversary of my artist mother’s death.

The impulse to create visual art feels connected to a sense of rebirth—a literal second chance at life, as well as my unexpected return to an acting career—along with grief and the swirl of ancestral energy that remains. These images of vintage furniture, soundstages, dance notation, crockery, motels, and cake are filled with life-affirming color, theatricality, layers, traces, shadows, echos, and inside jokes. The compositions are expressionistic narratives that poetically grapple with the past and a present coming into focus.

—Gina Hyams

“Let my work be like a poem set to music by a painter.”
—Joan Miro

“A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.”
—Mark Rothko