Artist Statement

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” (Thoreau)

Old photographs can inspire real or imagined recollections of the past. I am aware that memories may be an illusion, but finding an old photograph of three people in a ‘used books’ store started my quest
to interpret the personal reminiscences a photograph can suggest.

I asked friends and relatives to allow me to copy their favorite old photos for my collection. Each picture suggested a story from the past, but I choose to reinvent another context for each scenario. Integrating early 20th century portraits with contemporary images revealed intimate moments in time and place. I am “....presenting in plain sight what does not actually exist.” (Cennino Cennini 1437)

Our memories accumulate until they blend reminiscences with imagination. I have many recollections from the past, both happy and incredibly tragic, but the viewers of my “Past Tense” series are free to blend their own remembrances with the illusions I have presented to them.

My suggestions of intimate memories are presented through the medium of Photographic Montages digitally printed on archival paper with pigmented ink.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS        
*Awarded major prize

2010 Ceres Gallery, New York, NY                                                                         

2008  Ceres Gallery, New York, NY                                                  

2006  Hoboken Historical Museum, Hoboken, NJ

2005 Symposia, Hoboken, NJ                                                                              

2003 New Century Artists Gallery, New York, NY

1999 The Nathans Gallery, West Paterson, NJ  (also: ‘97, ‘89, ‘86, ‘84)

1998 The Pen & Brush Club, Inc., New York, NY

1988 Gallery 3, Hoboken, NJ

1987 Douglas College, Rutgers University, NJ

1982 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 
New Jersey Annual, N.J. State Museum, “Reality & Artifice,” Trenton, Juror: Margaret O’Reilly, Curator
Ceres Gallery, NYC, “Some Notion of Perfection,” group exhibit
George Segal Gallery, “Art Connections 6,” Montclair University, NJ, Juror: Jerelle Kraus
Watchung Art Center, “Binaries,” Watchung, NJ

2009 
*International Society of Experimental Artists, Bethlehem, PA, Annual Exhibit
 1978 Arts Center, Maplewood, NJ, “hob’art gallery visits the suburbs:” Aida Jones, Curator
 Hoboken Historical Museum, NJ, “hob’art’s Hoboken,” R.Rose: Curator, Robert Foster, Director: Juror
 Morris Museum, New Jersey Annual, “Local LIfe”
 Ceres Gallery & Calif. Inst. of Integral Studies, “Ineffable Woman,” Bi-costal Exhibition
 Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, N.A.W.A., “120th Anniversary Exhibition”

2008  
Brennan Court House, Jersey City, NJ, “Human History,” Juror: Ann Aptaker, Curator, Morris Museum, NJ
*International Society of Experimental Artists, Houston, TX, Juror: Polly Hammett, AWS, NWS
Brennan Court House, Jersey City, NJ, “American Sensibilities,” Juror: Heidi Neuhoff, Director, Neuhoff Gallery
NY Hall of Science, Queens, NY, “Art Envisions Science,” Curator: Audrey Leeds
Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, MD, “My Generation,” Juror: Missy Loewe
Ceres Gallery, NYC, Nat. Juried Exhibit, Juror: Magdalena Dabrowski, Metropolitan Museum Consultant

2007  
About Photography, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ; Curators: R. Kosinski & E. Fausty
*Santa Cruz Art League, CA, Int.Soc.of Experimental Artists, Juror: Ed Wordell
Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, MD, Jurou: Missy Loewe
Longview Museum of Fine arts, Longview, TX, “Personal Landscapes,”
2006 Ceres Gallery, New York, NY; Juror: Cora Rosevear, Assoc. Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Monroe Art Center, Hoboken, NJ , hob’art gallery group exhibit

2005 
Somerville Art Museum, Somerville, MA, “Prospecting for Art”
Brennan Courthouse Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, “Faces & Places,” Curator: Meredith Lippman
Las Vegas Arts Council, “Faces of Women,” NM, Ellen Zieselman of Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
A.I.R. Gallery, 6th Biennial, New York City, Juror: Maura Reilly, Curator, Brooklyn Museum of Art

2004 
*Lee County Alliance of the Arts , Int. Soc. of Experimental Artists, Fort Myers, FL, Juror: Bill Buchman
Studio Seto, “feminine, feminist, female,” Boston, MA
“Traveling the Carolinas,” NAWA Artists, Venues throughout the Carolinas
Period Gallery, “Digital International Exhibit,” Lincoln, NE
NAWA Gallery, “Art Explores Jewish Themes,” New York City
J.Wayne Stark Galleries,Texas A & M Un., “Artist’s Who Happen to Be Women,” College Station,TX

2003 
Case Western Reserve University, The Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Butler Institute of American Art, Beecher Center Digital Art Exhibition, Youngstown, OH
*National Assoc. of Women Artists, New York, NY; JUDGE: JANE WILSON, painter
Seton Hall University, “Women in the New Millennium,” South Orange, NJ, JUROR: JANE HAMMOND

2002  
*Mountain Art Show, Bernardsville, NJ
The Banana Factory Museum, National Assoc. of Women Artists, Bethlehem, PA
Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA
The Cambridge Art Assoc., MA; JUROR: Lisa Dennison, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

EDUCATION

Skidmore College, BS, Saratoga Springs, NY
Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

A T & T, Basking Ridge, NJ
McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX
The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Print Collection, Newark, NJ
Noyes Museum of Art, (Study Collection), Oceanville, NJ
Public Service Electric & Gas Co., Wall Relief Mural, Newark, NJ
New Jersey State Library for the Handicapped, Trenton, NJ
The Readers Digest Collection, Pleasantville, NY
Roddenberry Library, Cairo, GA
Rosenberg Library, Galveston, TX
Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ
Jane Voorhees-Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ