Bio

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Self-taught, with classes and guidance along the way, Wendy’s first solo exhibit was in 2019 and was called Geometry and Flow. Fully immersed in painting since 2015, she had previously exhibited collage and small colored-pencil drawings between 2005 and 2012.

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Her life as a painter unfolded toward the end of 25 years in the dance of North India: Kathak. Everything she loved about the dance followed her into painting: fluid lines, color, rhythm. “I paint to immerse myself in the colors I love, because the gorgeous costumes of graded colors were not enough. I needed to capture them on canvas”.

Two other strands of influence have guided her in the studio, consciously and unconsciously. In her early teens, her older brother — then an art student — shared Kandinsky's theory of abstract art alongside quantum physics, planting the questions that still fuel the artwork and a search for total well being. Inner practices exploring expanded awareness and mind-body connection arose out of an early exposure to metaphysics by her mother.

 

Wendy grew up in Sacramento, CA and has lived in Fairfield, Iowa permanently since 1997.  One of her recent exhibits featured her first larger canvases in Ten New Songs – a tribute to Leonard Cohen and his album by the same name. Major solo exhibitions in the midwest region are upcoming in 2026-2027. 

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