My Process:
My approach to painting is informed by early lessons in loss and impermanence. One can either resist change or become an instigator; I choose the latter. I build and deconstruct in layers, scraping away the safe and conspicuous in an effort to extract what feels like "truth." My finished paintings are the survivors of many battles, resting on the bones of buried pretense.
I work with materials and tools that allow me to build and subtract, construct and demolish. I paint primarily with water-based paints and gesso. I often incorporate charcoal, graphite, oil crayons and ink, even if they present only as ghosts beneath the surface.
My work does not aim to be representational, but people often tell me that my paintings conjure certain feelings or memories for them. I believe that art allows us to connect in a profoundly personal way with others, illuminating universal truths and experiences.
My paintings are in private and corporate collections across the US and abroad. A limited series of select paintings are available as prints on canvas at Restoration Hardware stores nationwide.
Exhibitions:
The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards - 2023
Contemporain Gallery, Baton Rouge - 2021
Revolution Mill, Greensboro NC - solo show, 2018
The Gallery at the View on Elm, Greensboro NC, featured artist, 2017
17 Days Art and Culture Festival, Greensboro NC - group show, 2017
Sternberger Artist Center, Greensboro NC - group show, 2017
The View on Elm, Greensboro NC - group show, 2017
High Point Furniture Market - featured artist, 2017
Center for Visual Artists, Greensboro NC - solo show, 2017
Sternberger Artists Center - group show, 2016
Light, Art + Design Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC - group show, 2016
The View on Elm, Greensboro, NC - solo show, 2016
Allison Sprock Fine Art, Charlotte, NC - group show, 2016
205 Collaborative, Greensboro, NC - group show, 2016
Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC - juried show, 2016 (first place)
Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA - Herbert Creecy retrospective/ group show, 2016
Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC - 100 for 100 group show, 2016
Vision Gallery, Atlantic Beach, NC - group show, 2016
Mason Fine Art - Coco144/group show, 2016
Sternberger Artist Center, Greensboro, NC - group show, 2016
The Worx, Greensboro, NC - group show, 2015
Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC - group show, 2015
205 Collaborative, Greensboro, NC - group show, 2015
The View on Elm, Greensboro, NC - solo show, 2015
Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC - group show, 2015
205 Collaborative, Greensboro, NC - group show, 2014