Background
A lifelong visual artist persistently making incorrigible art. Conceptual work, meaning that the look changes with the idea. Recognizable with its combination of loose paint, line work, representational anchor, charred element and layered collage. Her work has been seen in group and solo exhibitions in Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, Chapel Hill, NC, Columbia, Greenville and Greenwood, SC.
School of the Museum of Fine Art
Boston, MA
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
Philadelphia, PA
Excerpts from a solo show interview:
GM: How has your work developed throughout the years?
TB: My process is much less linear. Years ago, I could start on a single idea and carry it through to the finished product. Now, my work takes many more twists and turns before it is completed.
GM: Any influences or anyone you look up to when it comes to getting your ideas for your art?
TB: I have most affinity with installation artists. Nancy Rubins and Petah Coyne are both great examples. Maya Lin’s and Tudor Mitroi’s recent map-based work is driving me crazy right now.
GM: What artist or artists inspire you? Are there any historical or contemporary artists that you specifically admire?
TB: Tons. Tintoretto, Van Gogh and Twombly all have superb line quality in their drawings. Rauschenberg will always been at the top for collage...
TB (cont.): Ala Ebtekar and Gregory Michael Carter are doing excellent collage and line work. George Pfau is exploring transparency in a way that I did with the S.O.S. series, but have lost touch with. He is definitely calling me back to that. I am also very interested in the young women’s art coming out of Japan these days.