Artist Statement

The use of found and recycled objects signifies the transformation of history; a past-life experience transformed through the use of the recycled object to create a current portrait.  Each is an abstraction, and tells a story.  In my earlier work, the found/recycled object itself initiated the past/present dialogue.  Later work incorporated the found/recycled objects within the context of a narrative theme, part of a developing personal visual history which is the compelling focus of my art.

I find materials everywhere; something just looks right and becomes part of the collection.  I work at adding, deleting, altering and structuring material until that point in which color and structure are integrated.  That moment is representative of some layer of the unconscious self; my willingness to trust it signals completion.

Layering materials allows a ‘time-line’ texturing to infuse the work, producing a multi-dimensional window to the past/present through the blurred lens of time and decay.  Adding words, numbers, phrases and equations echoes attempts to articulate the visual dialogue.  Each piece is recognition of the way in which we all recycle our past into images of an ambiguous present.

Biography

Studio:  720 Monroe Street, #E-205, Hoboken, NJ  07030  201-745-7963

ART EDUCATION

1997-1998  Collage and Assemblage, The Art Students League, New York, NY.
1997-1998  The Art of Collage, The 92nd Street YMHA, New York, NY.

SOLO EXHIBITION

2005  Full House Printing, Hoboken, NJ.

SELECTED 3 PERSON EXHIBITION

2006  Atrium Gallery, Township of Washington, NJ.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005  Nohu Visions 2005, Park Performing Arts Center, Union City, NJ.
2005  150th Anniversary Citywide Exhibit, Hoboken, NJ.
2005  Griffin Gallery, Madison,NJ.
2004  25th Annual Mountain Art Juried Show, Bernardsville, NJ.
2004  Cathedral Arts Festival, Grace Church Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ.
2002  Cathedral Arts Festival, Grace Church Van Vorst, Jersey City, NJ.
2000  11th Annual Juried Exhibition (Semi-Finalist), Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY.
1999  24th Annual New Members Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
1999  Liquid Gallery,  Hoboken, NJ.
1998  43rd Regional Juried Art Show, Hazelton Art League, Hazelton, PA.
1997  16th Annual MetroShow-Juried Small Works, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.

HOB’ART EXHIBITIONS

2006  Hob’art, “In Touch With Art”, Hoboken City Hall, Hoboken, NJ.
2006  Hob’art, “In Touch With Art”, Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ.
2006  Hob’art, Monroe Center for the Arts, Hoboken, NJ.
2006  Hob’art, Independence Community Bank, Hoboken, NJ.
2005  Hob’art, Symposia Bookstore, Hoboken, NJ.
2005  Hob’art, Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ.
2003  Hob'art, Symposia Bookstore, Hoboken, NJ.