Artist Statement
Family Stories reflects my personal experience living in rural and suburban America and growing up with its myths, pleasures and banalities.  A family archive of nearly one thousand items of memorabilia - - tiny objects, old photographs, books, newspaper clippings - - spanning three generations and one hundred years, has provided the primary resources for this ongoing painting installation project.

I have incorporated multiple visual styles, diverse materials, deconstructed domestic patterns, and images of popular culture into the work in an investigation of the pluralistic, multifaceted, and complex condition of life in the contemporary American home.