Artist Statement
I work in painting series: I focus on a particular theme or format for a period of time. So far I’ve had four series, each exploring ideas or experiences important to me.
Each of my series has had a dominant theme:
"Texas Nights": I was interested in outer space and the mystery that anything exists at all.
"Rocks": I focused on the earth and our connection to it.
"Altar of Acceptance": a journey through the grief experience.
"Creation Game": an intellectual exploration of the invisible, focusing on quantum physics.
I’m at a place now, where I’m returning to the themes and some of the techniques of my first series: space is so big and so beautiful and we're so small....Art may be like a clock, we keep going round and round, revisiting the same places (ideas) over and over, only each time in a new way.
Biography
One Person Exhibitions
2006 Paintings. Grand Home Gallery. Hoboken, NJ.
2005 The Creation Game. Greenbelt Community Center. Greenbelt, MD.
2004 Quantum Rivers Paintings. Gallery 181. New York, NY.
2003 Guest Artist. Monroe Center for the Arts. Hoboken, NJ
2001 Particles/Waves. New Gallery- Color and Texture Company, Hoboken, NJ
2000 Paintings. Industrial Art and Sculpture Gallery, Northport, NY
1993 Altar of Acceptance . Installation of sculpture and paintings. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1990 Rocks. Northport Library, Northport, NY
1986 Texas Nights. New Arts Theatre, Dallas, TX
Group Exhibitions
2003 The June Salon Show. Gallery 402, 19 Hudson St., New York City, NY
2001 Small Works Show. Gallery 402, 19 Hudson St., New York City, NY
1999 Do Art: Exhibition of Area Artists. The Northport Museum, Northport, NY
1998 The Nature Conservancy Art Auction Fundraiser. Cold Spring Harbor, NY
1998 Do Art: Exhibition of Area Artists. The Northport Museum, Northport, NY
1997 Art and Jazz. Industrial Art and Sculpture Gallery, Northport, NY
1992 Juried Graduate Fine Arts Show. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC
1992 Exhibition and Symposium on Changing Values in Art. Pratt Institute, Brookyn, NY
1991 Cross Sections. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,NY
1989 Artist in the Marketplace Annual Exhibition. Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1987 Drawings. University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1986 Gallery Artists Group Show. 587 Broad Street Gallery, Athens, GA
1981 Annual Juried Undergraduate Show. Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, TX
1980 Annual Juried Undergraduate Show. Stephen F. Austin, Nacogdoches, TX
Education
1995 Master of Science. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1993 Master of Fine Arts. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1981 Bachelor of Arts. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
Conferences and Presentations
2004 Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. New York City Meeting, Presentation of work
2004 Society For Literature & Science Annual Meeting, Durham, NC., Chair of Session entitled, “Artists and Science”. Presentation of paintings and paper, “Nothingness, Rocks, and Quantum Physics”
