- Selected Works
Off the Grid, 2018. Oil on panel, 36 x 36″
Untitled With Flora, 2019. Oil on panel, 36 x 36″ sold
Littoral Shift, 2019. Oil on panel, 36 x 40″ sold
Full House, Oil on canvas, 48 x 64”
Same Difference, 2019. Oil on canvas, 46 x 60” sold
- Statement
My landscape paintings explore a terrain of conflicting realities that collide on the canvas to mingle and eventually merge. I use oil paints mixed from powdered pigments —many of which are derived from rocks and earth. Broad strokes and gestural language accommodate memory, a train of thought, or a slip of the hand. I am committed to the idea of painting as an intuitive, open-ended process of exploration.
Single point perspective doesn’t work here. Plans and intentions disappear, while other impulses assert themselves—echoes of larger, invisible forces constantly at work in the world.
- Curriculum Vitae
Education
1993
M.F.A., Painting, UC Berkeley1979
Geography, UC BerkeleyAwards and Honors
2017
Artist-in-Residence, MASSMoCA, North Adams, MA2015
Grant Recipient, Lillian Orlowsky and Louis Freed Foundation, Provincetown, MA2012
Artist-in-Residence, chaNorth, Pine Plains, NY2010
Grant Recipient, Artists’ Fellowship Inc., NYC
Grant Recipient, Change, Inc., Captiva, FL
Grant Recipient, Left Tilt Fund, San Francisco, CA2009
Artist-in-Residence, VCCA, Amherst, VA
Artist-in-Residence, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC2008
Grant Recipient, Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Artist-in-Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY2007
Artist-in-Residence, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
Artist-in-Residence, Catskill Center for the Arts, Arkville, NY2005
Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting, Pelham, NY2004
Artist-in-Residence, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, NY
Artist-in-Residence, Caldera, Deschutes National Forest, OR2000
Artist-in-Residence, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA1996
Award of Merit, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA1993
Eisner Prize in the Creative Arts, UC Berkeley
J. Ruth Kelsey Travel Award, UC BerkeleySolo Exhibitions
2018
Garrison Art Center, Off the Grid, Garrison NY2015
527 Madison Avenue Lobby Gallery, Landscapes, New York City2013
Artifact Gallery, Transitional Flow, New York City2012
Schaefer Landing, Landscape Paintings, Williamsburg, Brooklyn2009
Slate Gallery, Continental Drift, Williamsburg, Brooklyn2008
Slate Gallery, Tectonics, Williamsburg, Brooklyn2005
Pelham Art Center, Alexander Rutsch Award Exhibition, Pelham, NY2003
Soularch Gallery, A Little Northwest of Eden, San Francisco, CA1995
Worth Ryder Gallery, J. Ruth Kelsey Award Exhibit, Berkeley, CASelected Group Exhibitions
2019
Pelham Art Center, HyperAccumulators, Pelham, NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2019 Art on Paper, Greensboro, NC
r.blitzer gallery, Group Exhibition, Santa Cruz, CA2018
Chroma Projects, Drawing Together: Five Bay Area artists reunite, Charlottesville, VA2016
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA2014
Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York
The Painting Center, Shifting Ecologies, NYC2012
Artifact Gallery, Aftermath, New York City
The Painting Center, Natural Constructed Spaces, NYC2010
Storefront Gallery, Utopia/Dystopia, Bushwick, Brooklyn
Leanne Hull Fine Art, Group Show, La Jolla, CA2008
Slate Gallery, Black and White, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY2007
The ’temporary Museum, The Impermanent Collection IV, Brooklyn, NY
The Gallery at R&F, Not Seeing the Forest, Kingston, NY2005
Edward Thorp Gallery, Presentations, NYC2004
SFMOMA Artists’ Gallery, Out There, San Francisco CA1997
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Exemplary Contemporary, Santa Cruz, CA - Bibliography
Erika Howsare, “Land Here Now”, C-ville Weekly, July 10 – 16, 2019.
Blazej, Sara, “Aftermath at Artifact,”arterynyc.com/posts/aftermath-at-artifact/ 01-29-2013
Braun, Lauren, “Spotlight on Dorothy Robinson,” http://thelaurenbraun.blogspot.com 2-15-2010
Zucker, Adam, “Continental Drift On View in Brooklyn,” berkshirefinearts.com 6-29-2009