The Shukovsky Gallery

Web site address: ShukovskyGallery.com                  email: shukovsk@tds.net

My work is characterized by the marriage of found objects, painted passages, and paper scraps. I draw from a palette composed of a variety of materials including corrugated cardboard, newspapers, old hymnal books, handmade and oriental papers, torn watercolors, charred papers, photographs and magazine images. Using a repeated process of tearing, arranging, rearranging, and adhering materials from my palette I strive to create expressive visual statements. I appreciate the tactile aspects of the materials as a means of adding new life and ideas to my work. I consider the process more intuitive than intellectual and I love to incorporate disparate elements that show the effects of time on our earthly and spiritual values.

In my photography, a local transfer station (town dump) and a local repair yard for heavy construction machinery has become my haunt - a gray drab, cluttered place becomes a beautiful place filled with magical shapes and color. Looking through the viewfinder I focus on details that are so easily overlooked. When one looks at a pile of junk there is the appearance of chaos and one can not see that there are regions of luminous color and shapes forming intriguing compositions.  I use the camera to get close to my subject so as to narrow my field of vision and thereby shutout the external chatter of the world. This becomes a form of meditation for me as chaos and chatter, both external and internal are silenced. This process hopefully transforms a collection of discarded materials into a magical composition of form, texture and color.

I have exhibited widely in the greater Boston area, New Hampshire and various national competitions. My work is in many private collections nationally and internationally. I am a juried member of the New England Watercolor Society, a distinguished artist  of the Concord Art Association (Mass) as well as the New Hampshire Women's Caucus for the Arts and various art associations. I attended the Ohio University-School of Fine Arts, Boston University, B.A. and the Decordova Museum School in Lincoln, Massachusetts.