believes that art is anything we want it to be
because it’s a mirror of society
paints and makes whatever it is that she herself
would like to own at the time she makes it
thinks the art world has gotten too pompous
and inflexible about ugly and cynical art, has
cycled itself into
more limitations once again,
and most unfortunately, has even scared those
who love art away from collecting it…we forget
that artists such as Van Gogh painted sunflowers
because, he wrote, they cheered him up…we
forget, too, that attendance at the Van Gogh
exhibition as well as attendance at the
Impressionist exhibition was so great that many
seeking to go could not—absent any spectacular
tactics, these crowds were drawn by the same
love of art that the artists creating
these works
put into them
the artist is a first generation American of
Finnish descent, born in Manhatten, raised in
the Catskills, and
turned out to roam the
Shenandoah Valley
B.A. State University of N.Y., Stony Brook
M.F.A. University of N. Carolina at Greensboro
worked at the Library of Congress for 10 years
but resigned to pursue her art, determined to
be an artist no matter what it takes or what
the outcome
“success is no
accident,”
wrote Vincent Van Gogh,
“but it must be
willed”