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1971 Born Boston, MA
2003 “NOCTURNAL LOVE SONGS”, Overtones, Los Angeles, CA
2002 "SLEEPING BEAUTY", Jezebel, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "LITTLE BLACK DRESS", Jezebel, Los Angeles, CA
1998 "LADIES UNDERWEAR", The Lovenest, Culver City, CA
1992 "THE WORLD IS SPUN", Lime Gallery at CAL ARTS, Valencia, CA
2002 "BRAND 32, WORKS ON PAPER", Brand Library and Art Galleries,
Glendale, CA
Juried by Nancy Moure
"ALL THAT GLITTERS", Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
"CONCERTINA", The Study Gallery, Poole and Bournemouth College, Dorset, England
"ON SITE AT THE GATE 2002", Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro,
CA
Juried by Patricia Correia
2001 "APHRODITE", Half a Dozen Rose Gallery, Venice, CA
"GA GA FOR LA LA", Eye Five Gallery at the Brewery, Los Angeles,
CA
Juried by Elsa Longhauser
2000 "MYTH AND MATTER", Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "LUMINOUS SECRETS", Art Forum Satellite Space, Encino, CA
1998 "INNERWORKS", Available Light Gallery, Burbank, CA
Leslee Komaiko, "Art That Hangs Well", LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE, June 2002
Scott Neill, "Caz's Labour of Love from Los Angeles",THE DAILY ECHO, March 2002
Veronica Jauriqui, "A Real Dressing Down", CULVER CITY CHRONICLE, May 1998
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Study Gallery, Poole and Bournemouth College, Dorset, England
Mrs. Virginia H. Deknatel, Cambridge, MA
Cover art, "REBIRTH OF THE GODDESS", Addison Wesley Publishing, 1997
1999 Art Faculty, "Where the muses sing", ARIADNE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF MYTH AND RITUAL, Lesvos,Greece
1998 Teaching assistant to painter Linda Jacobson, UCLA EXTENSION, Los Angeles and Santorini, Greece
1994 Internship with Robbie Conal
1992 Studio assistant to Frank Romero
1992 CAL ARTS, BA Program in Fine Art, Valencia, CA
1990-
1989 The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, BA Program in Fine Art, Boston, MA
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Summer Program in Color Photography, Boston, MA
Graduated Concord High school, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Parsons School of Design, Program in Studio Painting, New York, NY
In my work, the garment becomes a representation of a woman's body and of her experience.
“Last night as I lay sleeping
I dreamt O, marvelous error,
that there was a beehive
here inside my heart
and the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey from
all of my failures.”-Machado de Assis
“We all experience what the Portuguese call saudade,
which translates
as an inexplicable longing,
an unnamed and enigmatic yearning of the soul,
and it is this feeling that lives
in the realms of imagination and inspiration
and is the breeding ground for the
sad song,
for the Love Song.The Love Song is
the light of God, deep down,
blasting up
through our wounds.”- Nick Cave
NOCTURNAL LOVE SONGS is an installation about the mysterious power of dreams.
I use vintage wedding dresses and an assemblage of sheet music, dream libretto, alchemical imagery, text and other found ephemera to create a goth/femme environment that seeks to penetrate the mystical, secret and enigmatic nature of the dream world.
Perhaps our dreams are like Love Songs from an unknown player - guiding us to heal our deepest sorrows, to grow and to awaken.
“All of you undisturbed cities, haven't you ever longed for the enemy?” - Rilke
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY is a meditation on love. It is an homage to the thorns and raptures, the innocence of first kisses and schoolgirl crushes, the beauty and magnitude of true love, and the wounds of loves' endings. This installation is about bidding farewell to the ghosts of the past, cutting through the thorns that surround a broken heart. It is about a return to feeling after a long stay in loves' winter.
“… I'm your ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry-bomb!” - Joan Jett
The playful PANTIES are adorned with a girly/glam rock use of color, glitter and attitude. Collaged imagery of flowers, lips and wedding cakes subvert and question traditional symbols of femininity.
“The world is its own magic.” - Shunryu Suzuki
My CONCERTINA BOOKS (a simple accordion book form) are inspired by dreams, fairy tales, surrealism and mythology. These works explore psychic terrain to uncover the pull of the inner life - and forge a map towards the instinctive, the sensual, the numinous.
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