Artist Statement

I am an artist, teacher and writer living in Hoboken and teaching at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. I exhibit regularly in the New York metropolitan region. Through my artwork I reflect on nature in landscape and still life, on the grace, whimsy and mystery of the human figure, and on the magic and tensions in relations between people. I also like to represent abstract ideas non-figuratively.

This series of mixed media mounted on canvas explores the use of photographs—polaroids and polaroid transfers—combined with encaustics and monoprinting. All of the photos are my own, taken in the many places I have visited: an inveterate traveler, I have spent long periods in Europe and Africa and made short trips to China, Russia, the Middle East and North Africa. I am caught by the beauty of landscape, the romance of ancient ruins, and the troubled history of archeological sites. Most recently I have been working with encaustics, a technique that lends itself to incorporating found objects in three-dimensional assemblages.

Monotype, my main medium of expression, is a technique used to create a single print by transferring to paper an image that is painted on a metal plate. I work in oils on Arches and Pescia rag papers and vellum, and I use my own handmade papers as plates. An etching press makes the transfer. The result is a print with painterly textures and surface effects that cannot be obtained by working directly on paper. Some of the prints are further developed with oils, oil pastels, and colored pencils. Monotype offers a unique opportunity to capture the gesture of drawing in an oil painting. The rapidity of monotype printing enables me to maintain the immediacy of "handwriting" and to express a wide range of moods.

Biography

Employment

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1982-date

Education

University of Sussex, England, PhD
New York University, New York, MA
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, BA
Art Students League, New York

Fellowships and Awards

Vermont Studio Center residency 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Blue Mountain Center residency 2003
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation award 2001, 1987
Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University 1995
Fulbright Seminar in Morocco and Tunisia 1993
Hirsch Farm Project, "Public Art" 1992

Selected Exhibitions

2007 “New Art for New Collectors” Viridian Gallery, New York
2007 ETS Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ 2-person show
2007 “Scratching the surface” Ceres Gallery, New York
2007 “5 New Gallery Artists” Viridian Gallery, New York
2007 “In the Shadow of Manhattan” JCC Bergen County
2006 “The Square Show,” Ceres Gallery, New York
2006 “In touch with art,” City Hall, Hoboken, NJ (curator)
2006 Hoboken Studio Tours, City Hall, Hoboken, NJ
2006 “Meditations on the Horizon,” Sovereign Bank, Hoboken, NJ (solo show)
2006 “In touch with art,” Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ
2006 hob’art group show at Monroe Arts Center, Hoboken, NJ
2005 OIA group show at New York Law School, New York
2005 Hoboken Studio Tours, City Hall, Hoboken, NJ
2005 hob’art group exhibition at Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ
2005 “Moments and Movement” Symposia, Hoboken, NJ (solo show)
2004 “Oblong show” hob’art group show, Symposia, Hoboken, NJ
2004 “Photography Today” Symposia, Hoboken, NJ
2004 hob’art group show at Symposia, Hoboken, NJ
2003 Hoboken Studio Tours, Hoboken, NJ
2003 Digital/Analog, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2003 hob’art group show, Secaucus Public Library, Secaucus, NJ
2002 Small group exhibit, Hoboken City Hall, Hoboken, NJ
2002 Hoboken Studio Tours, Hoboken, NJ
2002 Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, “Toray” Photoetching, Norwalk, CT
2001 City Without Walls Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ, traveling to 2002
2001 Hoboken Studio Tours, Hoboken, NJ
2001 NJ Printmaking Council, Somerville, NJ, “Humanity”, traveling to 2002
2001 NJ Printmaking Council, Somerville, NJ, “The Senses”
2000 “Identity” NJ Printmaking Council Juried Members Show, Somerville, NJ
1999 Payne Gallery, Moravian College, 11th Biennial National Print Show
1999 CHC, Englewood, NJ (small group show)
1998 Mélange Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1997 The Glove Project, Phoenix Gallery, NYC
1996 American Cyanamid, 3 Person Show, Princeton, NJ
1996 Cabrini Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
1996 The Glove Project, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1995 Johnson & Johnson, 3 Person Show, Skillman, NJ
1995 NJ Printmaking Council, 3 Person Show, Somerville, NJ
1995 Cabrini Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
1995 NJ Printmaking Council Juried Members Show, Somerville, NJ
1994 Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ
1994 NJ Printmaking Council Juried Members' Show, Somerville, NJ
1994 Hoboken Gallery, Hoboken, NJ (solo show)
1993 Rutgers University, Labor Education Center, New Brunswick (solo show)
1993 NJ Printmaking Council Members' Show, Somerville, NJ (honorable mention)
1992 Watchung Arts Center, 4 Person Show, Watchung, NJ
1992 Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY
1992 Watchung Arts Center, Small Works Show, Watchung, NJ
1992 Cabrini Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
1991 Bernard's, Hoboken, NJ (solo show)
1989 Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
1989 Women of the Garden State, Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1988 City Without Walls 7th Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ
1988 St. John's Exhibit of Contemporary Religious Art, Newark, NJ
1988 Artists' League of Central NJ, Middlesex County Museum
1988 Tweed George Street Playhouse Show, New Brunswick, NJ
1988 Ceres Gallery, NYFAI Work of the Spirit, New York, NY
1988 O Roe Electric Art Space CWW Metro Show, Hoboken, NJ
1987 City Without Walls 6th Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ
1987 Tweed Drawing Group, Plainfield, NJ
1987 Hunterdon Art Center Annual Juried Exhibition, Clinton, NJ
1986 City Without Walls 5th Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ
1985 "Editorials" Tweed Exhibit, Montclair State College, NJ
1982 Brandeis University Juried Exhibit, Washington, DC

Professional Affiliations

Viridian Artists, New York
Ceres Gallery, New York
NJ Printmaking Council
CT Graphic Arts Center
hob’art, an arts collective
Organization of Independent Artists (OIA)

Collections

Art Students League, New York; Oberlin College, Ohio; Private and corporate collections