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
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, NJ
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
