Purchased artwork may be picked up on July 26.
After receiving a 35mm camera as a graduation gift, I spent four years wandering around photographing trees, plants, gardens, modest houses, landscapes. I was accepted into the graduate program at the University of Colorado, Boulder and received an MFA in photography in 1976. Eight months before my thesis show I started composing/constructing photos by arranging objects—including my own hands, face, pieces of hair, string, fishing flies, tape—and photographing those constructions. I’ve been making narrative constructed images ever since.
For years I’ve photographed flowers and often flowers that are “past their prime.” Flowers whose petals have dropped, sometimes browning, whose leaves have drooped and curled, with rigid bleached stems are to me, as beautiful as those in the glory of their newness, their high bloom. I’ve used pressed and dried flowers in my narrative photo constructions. A year ago I decided to photograph them as single objects, to confirm and to share, their unique beauty.
I’ve lived in Helena for 38 years. I have a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. I’ve had a 2-person show (with painter Doug Turman) at the now-closed Turman Larison Contemporary Gallery, Helena, 2015; a solo show in the Bair Gallery, Holter Museum of Art, 2018; 2-person show (with ceramic sculptor Sandi Brandsford), now-closed 1+1=1 Gallery, Helena, 2021; a solo show 221B Gallery, Trinidad CO, 2022.
