Address: Chicago, Illinois

E-mail: jjn@royalbox.com

1962 Bachelor of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1964-1966 Advanced Study, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

1964 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

1972-1974 1972-1974 Graphic Design, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL

I work abstractly, experimenting with the watercolor medium, intending to transcend the usual landscape form. I allow the accidental qualities that are the nature of the medium to inform the ultimate direction the works take.

My newest series originates from my life-long interest in the cosmos. I recently took a couple of courses; one was on Astrobiology, the quest to find life on other planets, the other was called The Search for the Center of the Universe. These classes introduced me to a new vocabulary of ideas and forms. I am especially interested in the attempts of mankind to find order and meaning in the stars and to measure outer space with the tools available to them. I found each culture and age has a different way of interpreting and presenting the world as they see it. I am increasingly concerned with the future of our planet: threatened by nuclear destruction, global warming, and man’s own inability to peacefully co-exist. Maybe we will be forced to find other planets that can sustain life which we can successfully colonize if we are to continue to survive as a species.

I examine these concepts of unraveling the mysteries of the universe. As a result of investigating these marvels, my artworks have become more delicate, more geometric, loose and transparent. By splattering the watercolors and allowing them to bleed, I intend to suggest the atmosphere, the expanding sky. My objective is to explore the idea of making order out of chaos and of measuring the infinite.

2007 The Art of Music, invitational, Tucson, AZ

2007 Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild, juried show, Tucson, AZ

2006 Signatures of Age, juried show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006 Around the Coyote, juried exhibit, Chicago, IL

2006, 2004 Ready Set D’Art, invitational, Tucson Museum of Art