I am an artist, teacher and writer living in Hoboken and teaching at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. I exhibit regularly in the New York metropolitan region and with hob’art, an arts cooperative based in Hoboken. 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 like to represent these ideas non-figuratively in abstract compositions.



This image is drawn from a series of pastel paintings on multimedia paper. The series explores the use of the female figure as the basis of layered work. Recently I have incorporated reverse or transfer drawing, a technique used by Paul Klee. The transfer work in water-based printing ink gives a soft, rich and varied line. I like the freedom and immediacy of drawing, its relation to handwriting, and the possibility of painting with soft pastels. The rapidity of the process enables me to express a wide range of moods.




I studied art at the Art Students League in New York, starting in Saturday classes for children and continuing, after majoring in studio art at Oberlin College, to train in workshops at Pratt, the Printmaking Council of NJ, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, the CT Center for Graphic Arts, and elsewhere. I have been drawing from life since the age of ten, and this series of pastel paintings reflects my interest in body movement and dance theater, particularly the work of Alwin Nikolais. Many of the women who posed for the drawings that are the basis of the pastel paintings are professional dancers and practitioners of yoga.


BIOGRAPHY



Art education



Art Students League, New York

Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

Pratt Institute, New York

Workshops at Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, NJ Printmaking Council, CT Graphic Arts Center, R&F Encaustics




Exhibitions



Solo Shows


2009 "Transcriptions" Port Washington Library, Port Washington, New York

2009 "Post Scriptum" Ceres Gallery, New York

2008 "Inscriptions" Viridian Gallery, New York

2007 ETS Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ (2-person show)

2006 “Meditations on the Horizon,” Sovereign Bank, Hoboken, NJ

2005 “Moments and Movement” Symposia, Hoboken, NJ



Selected Group Exhibitions


2009 1978 Gallery, Maplewood, NJ

"Towing the line" Ceres Gallery, New York


2008 "All the best" Viridian Gallery, New York

Hoboken Studio Tours, City Hall, Hoboken, NJ (annual event)

"hob'art@Grace Church", Jersey City, NJ

"hob'art@Viridian" Viridian Gallery, New York

"Summer show" Ceres Gallery, New York


2007 40th Anniversary Show, Viridian Artists, NYC

Square Show, Ceres Gallery, NYC

Holiday Show, Sovereign Bank, Hoboken, NJ

“La rive gauche” ISO building Jersey City, NJ

“New Art for New Collectors” Viridian Gallery, New York

“Scratching the surface” Ceres Gallery, New York

“5 New Gallery Artists” Viridian Gallery, New York

“In the Shadow of Manhattan” JCC Bergen County


2006 “The Square Show,” Ceres Gallery, New York

“In touch with art,” City Hall, Hoboken, NJ (curator)

Hoboken Studio Tours, City Hall, Hoboken, NJ

“In touch with art,” Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ

hob'art group show at Monroe Arts Center, Hoboken, NJ


2005 OIA group show at New York Law School, New York
Hoboken Studio Tours, City Hall, Hoboken, NJ

hob'art group exhibition at Justice William Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, NJ




2004 “Oblong show” hob'art group show, Symposia, Hoboken, NJ

“Photography Today” Symposia, Hoboken, NJ

hob'art group show at Symposia, Hoboken, NJ


2003 Hoboken Studio Tours, Hoboken, NJ

Digital/Analog, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

hob'art group show, Secaucus Public Library, Secaucus, NJ


2002 Small group exhibit, Hoboken City Hall, Hoboken, NJ

Hoboken Studio Tours, Hoboken, NJ

Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, “Toray” Photoetching, Norwalk, CT


2001 City Without Walls Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ, traveling to 2002

Hoboken Studio Tours, Hoboken, NJ

NJ Printmaking Council, Somerville, NJ, “Humanity”, traveling to 2002

NJ Printmaking Council, Somerville, NJ, “The Senses”



2000 “Identity” NJ Printmaking Council Juried Members Show, Somerville, NJ

1999 Payne Gallery, Moravian College, 11 th Biennial National Print Show

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

The Glove Project, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ


1995 Johnson & Johnson, 3 Person Show, Skillman, NJ

NJ Printmaking Council, 3 Person Show, Somerville, NJ

Cabrini Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY

NJ Printmaking Council Juried Members Show, Somerville, NJ


1994 Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ

NJ Printmaking Council Juried Members' Show, Somerville, NJ

Hoboken Gallery, Hoboken, NJ (solo show)


1993 Rutgers University, Labor Education Center, New Brunswick (solo show )

NJ Printmaking Council Members' Show, Somerville, NJ (honorable mention)


1992 Watchung Arts Center, 4 Person Show, Watchung, NJ

Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY

Watchung Arts Center, Small Works Show, Watchung, NJ

Cabrini Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY


1991 Bernard's, Hoboken, NJ (solo show )

1999 Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ 1989

Women of the Garden State, Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ


1998 City Without Walls 7th Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ

St. John's Exhibit of Contemporary Religious Art, Newark, NJ

Artists' League of Central NJ, Middlesex County Museum

Tweed George Street Playhouse Show, New Brunswick, NJ

Ceres Gallery, NYFAI Work of the Spirit, New York, NY

O Roe Electric Art Space CWW Metro Show, Hoboken, NJ




1987 City Without Walls 6th Annual Metro Show, Newark, NJ

Tweed Drawing Group, Plainfield, NJ

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 www.viridianartists.com

Ceres Gallery, New York www.ceresgallery.org

NJ Printmaking Council

CT Graphic Arts Center

hob'art, an arts collective www.hob-art.com

Organization of Independent Artists (OIA)


Collections


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