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

2007 Hoboken Studio Tour, City Hall, Hoboken, NJ
2007 “La rive gauche” ISO building Jersey City, NJ
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 Tour, 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 Tour, 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 Tour, 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 Tour, 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