The mission of the Artists Foundation: is to nourish excellence in the arts by enhancing the public role and economic position of artists; to build community among practicing artists and new communication between this vital community and the public; to support access to essential resources for artists in all disciplines, particularly low income and under served artists' access to health care and other social services; and to sponsor exhibitions of art for art's sake as well as innovative uses of art to promote public consideration of issues vital to diverse social, political, and economic groups.

I remember as an art student looking at a Tiepolo painting and noticing imprints of brush strokes beneath the surface that were not part of the final composition. These strokes represented something Tiepolo had painted over; a rejection of one passage or idea for another, a change of mind. By observing the history and dimensionality of marks left in the wake of the evolution of the painting I felt that I was there, watching Tiepolo at work. My recent abstract paintings are a kind of alchemy of controlled accidents, random play and unexpected relationships that acquire greater significance as the making and layering of the painting evolves. My work, in part, reflects a meditation on surface and relies increasingly on working with a multiplicity of mediums, including oil paints, shellac, metal patinas, incandescent powders and photographic emulsions & chemicals. As layers are built up, the earliest areas resonate from beneath and in some way tease the surface of the finished work. In this sense, surface becomes an archeological record and a topography, a memoir of the making of the painting and competes in importance with the image, expanding perception. Through small points of pigment applied in layers over disorderly surfaces, these paintings map ambiguous relationships of clusters and patterns - semaphores from of a hermetic world without objects or comfortable references.

The Distillery is a vibrant community of artists, artisans, and small businesses located in a beautiful mid 19th century converted rum distillery building. For more than twenty years The Distillery has been a hub of creativity and the arts in the city of Boston, housing many nationally and internationally renowned artists and artisans. Located in lovely and historic South Boston, The Distillery houses three galleries as well as approximately 140 tenants in its studios and studio apartments. Come meet the artists and personnel and experience The Distillery firsthand at our annual Open Studios event each fall.