When I was growing up in Manhattan I could walk to the Metropolitan Museum of art. There I saw the work of many artists whose work affected me, but the ones who spoke to me the most were Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Rembrandt. The rhythms and emotional intensity of Van Gogh are still reflected in my work, as are the forms and color of Gauguin. I would like to think the humane spirit of Rembrandt also exists in my work. Later, while earning a degree in English from Radcliffe College, I took courses with T. Lux Feininger and first encountered the Bauhaus School of Art. Two years of studying drawing at the University of Illinois prepared me for the MFA program at Pratt Institute where, through my mentor George McNeil, I was introduced to Abstract Expressionism and to Hans Hofmann's concept of space and the push-pull of the colors which create it. All my work, whether representational or non-objective, is informed by that concept and also by my focus on flow.
At Pratt I concentrated on the flow of forces in nature. Later came images regarding the flow of consciousness: the going in and out of dreams. Now I am developing paintings related to the flow of time passing, and my reaction to it.
The lyrical, sinuous
line characterizing my work, along with the luminous color for which I am known,
can be seen in the 7-foot high stained glass windows I designed for
Kingston's Temple
Emanuel.
Vita
A.B.
(magna cum laude) Radcliffe College, Harvard University
M.F.A. Pratt
Institute (studied with Jacob Lawrence, George McNeil)
Additional
Study: Columbia University,
Art Students League, Skowhegan School of Painting &
Sculpture
Selected Awards and
Citations:
2004,
2000, 1999, 1996, 1995 Barrett Art
Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003, 2002,
2000, 1998, 1996
Woodstock
Artists
Association
1989 - 1994
Ulster County Art
Association
1996 Louis
Comfort Tiffany
National
Competition, Finalist
Selected
Exhibitions:
2007 Art
in the Loft, Millbrook, NY
2007
Veronamerica II:
International show in
Kingston,
NY
2007 Donskoj
Gallery, Kingston, NY
2006 Mildred I. Washington Gallery,
Dutchess
County Community
College, NY
2005
2001 Palmer Gallery, Vassar
College,
Poughkeepsie,
NY
2007
2005, 2003, 2002 Casa del Arte
Gallery,
Highland,
NY
2004
2003 Artists Gallery, Kingston, NY
(three
person
shows)
2007
2004, 2003, 1994 The Coffey
Gallery,
Kingston,
NY
2003
Northern Westchester Center for the
Arts,
Mt. Kisco,
NY
2003
School House Gallery,
Croton-on-
Hudson,
NY
2002 Dorsky Museum,
SUNY New
Paltz
2002 Mid
City Gallery, Kingston, NY
2001
Culinary Institute of America, Hyde
Park,
NY (four-person
show)
2001 New York
Law School, NYC
2001
Orange County Community
College,
Middletown,
NY
2001 The
Gallery, Ellenville, NY
2000 The Bruynswick Gallery, Gardiner
NY
(Featured
Artist)
1998
The Cultural Coop. Stone Ridge,
NY
(Solo
show)
1991 Fireside Gallery, Kingston, NY
(three-
person
show)
1990 James Cox
Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1990 Tai Chi Gallery, NYC (four-person
show)
1989 4th
Street Gallery, NYC
1977
Bennett College, Millbrook NY
(Solo
show)
Other
Activities
2002 -
the present: Coordinator for Long
Reach
Arts, Hudson Valley's oldest
art
cooperative
2006 CD
Cover for Voices of the
Valley
2005
Carried by the NY Historical Society
Gift
Shop,
Manhattan
2004
Designed 3 seven-foot stained
glass
windows for Temple Emanuel, Kingston,
NY
(installed January 2005)
2000 Lecture and Slide Show Restrospective, SUNY
Ulster
1980 - 1993
Designed stage sets for 10+
full-
scale
productions, including The
Three-
Penny
Opera (1977), The
Magic
Flute (1990), Hansel and
Gretel (1992)
1971 Established Art Program at St.
Ann's
Lower School,
Brooklyn
Heights,
NY
1961 Set
Painter, Berkshire Playhouse,
Stockbridge,
NY
Included in the permanent
collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana; Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, NY; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, and in private
collections in the U.S. and
Israel.
"A [solo] show of enormous depth, and excellent quality, which not only pleases the
eye,but feeds the soul." James G. Shine, Kingston Daily
Freeman