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email: paula@raincollective.com

612-867-7022

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Motherhood has bestowed greater depth to my psycho-spiritual exploration with the human figure.  My self portraits and paintings of my two sons are inspired by the questions I have been asking since early childhood – Why are we here?  Who am I?  Who are you?  I attempt to peel away our exterior to expose the subconscious emotions.  My paintings portray the evolution from the untainted innocent child to the self-conscious adolescent and mature adults as we search for our identity.

AWARDS: 

    Jerome Mentor / Protogee Scholarship Grant, Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota,
    Mentor Program, 1999-2000

EDUCATION:

    B.A. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1990
    B.S. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1995

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

    2007:  Coffman Art Gallery, University of Minnesota.  Two-person show.
    2006:  The Keg House Arts Building, Minneapolis, MN.  “Art-a-Whirl.”
    2006:  Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN.  “W.A.R.M.  Juried Exhibition:  Our Roots.”
    2005:  Coffman Art Gallery, University of Minnesota.  Three-person show.
    2003:  The 700 Building, Minneapolis, MN.  Two-person show.
    2002:  The 700 Building, Minneapolis, MN. Two-person show.
    2001:  Sirena Gallery, Taos, NM.  Solo show.
    2000:  The Soap Factory, Minneapolis,MN.  “W.A.R.M. Mentor Program Exhibition.”
    2000:  The Austellung of Payerbach, Payerbach, Austria, “100 Sacred Visions.” 
    2000:  The 700 Building, Minneapolis, MN, “The 700 Building Exhibition.”
    2000:  Minnetonka Center for the Arts,  Wayzata, MN.  “The Figure Show.”
    1999:  The California Building, Minneapolis,MN.  “Art-a-Whirl.” 
    1998:  Winchester Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.  Group-show.
    1998:  Lizards Artistic Expressions Gallery, Duluth, MN.  Group-show.
    1998:  The Wyman Building,  Minneapolis, MN.  “W.A.R.M. Nineteenth Annual Juried  
                 Exhibition for Women.”
    1998:  Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, MN.  “Expressions of Spirit.”
    1997:  Washington Galleries – Northern Women’s Art Collective, “Up Against the Wall”,                  Duluth MN
    1997:  Ozark Heritage Arts Center and Museum, Leslie, AK.  “Hope Lights a Candle in      
                The Darkness.”