ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Whether you view it through a microscope or an airplane window, our world is textured, diverse, pocked, and burnished in its splendor. It isn’t always pretty, but it’s always arresting, remarkable and unforgettable.

I love deep forests, expanses of ocean, vast deserts, foggy weather and outer space - the mystery and lure of endlessness.

One can only see so far ahead.

For me, that’s pretty much the human condition; there’s something very human about being slightly blind. We are, in many ways in this life, operating with very limited sight every day, at every turn.

We’re a little bit blind.

We make up stories and folklore to make sense of an existence that we don’t completely understand and will never understand as long as we’re here living in it. We build, and we worry, and we work so hard, and all the while, all the other creatures on the planet seem quite content to just sit and be and look.

Yet, we humans want meaning in everything. “Why?” is the first question we learn to ask. We want to know the how and the why. 

My work is an attempt to engage with something fundamental and elemental about the human experience. We’re a little bit blind. We don’t have all the answers and never will. Yet, we go on looking for meaning. We go on through the fog.

And on top of that gobbledygook, I want my work to be beautiful. Because we need a lot more of it.

EXHIBITIONS

New Paintings. Craighead Green Gallery. Dallas March 2022

New Paintings Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas               Nov 2020

Fields, one-person show      Winnsboro Center for the Arts        Winnsboro, TX   Jan 2020

Fall Group Show                   Guthrie Contemporary                    New Orleans        Nov 2019

Artist Resident Show             Daugherty Arts Center                    Austin               June 2019

Summer Group Show           Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                  June 2019

Scott Simons – New Work    Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                  Mar 2019

Fall Art Walk Show                Guthrie Contemporary                    New Orleans        Nov 2018

Faculty Group Show            Dougherty Arts Center                    Austin                  June 2018

Group Show                          Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                   May 2018

Fall Art Walk Show                Guthrie Contemporary                    New Orleans        Nov 2017

Holiday Group Show            Craighead-Green Gallery              Dallas                   Nov 2003

New Work                              Buchanan Gallery                            Galveston            June 2003

New Work                              Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                   Nov 2003

Group Show                          Buchanan Gallery                            Galveston             May 2003

Juried Show                           Texas Commission on the Arts        Austin                  April 2002

New Work                              Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                   Dec 2001

New Work                              Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                   May 2000

Holiday Group Show            Craighead Green Gallery               Dallas                    Nov 1999

Once you can accept the universe
as being something expanding
into an infinite nothing which is something, 
wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

                                 - Albert Einstein