My works are meditations on what it feels like for me to flow in and out of dreams. Although in some of my works one may recognize objects, the world I aim to present cannot be seen by the naked eye, but rather by the inner eye, which transfigures all it sees. Ever since I was a young woman, I was fascinated by the flow of energy in nature, and now, growing older, I sense that energy as a function of the flow of time, transforming us all. That energy is what I try to present, whether it’s with the rhythms of black and white, or with color that makes space ambiguous. Either way, my aim is to draw the viewer into the mystery of what is felt – but unseen.
M.F.A in Drawing and Painting, Pratt Institute (studied with Jacob Lawrence, George McNeil)
A.B. (magna cum laude) in English, Radcliffe College, Harvard University
Additional Study: Woodstock School of Art. Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Selected Awards and Citations
2017 Art Society of Kingston's ASKAR award for "Outstanding local talent"
2015 The Sally Jacobs/Phoebe Towbin Award for "Art work of exceptional merit in our
Region" from Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM)
2014 Distinguished Artist of the year, Arts Society of Kingston (ASK)
2013 First recipient of Gallery Committee Award of Recognition, ASK
2008 First recipient of Best Landscape of the Year, WAAM
2004, 2000, 1999, 1996, 1995 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2019, 2018, 2014, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996 WAAM
1989 - 1994 Ulster County Art Association Best in Show
Solo Shows
2015 Sixty-year Retrospective, Doghouse Gallery, Saugerties, NY.
2014 Main Gallery, ASK
2010 Healing Arts Gallery, Ellenville, NY
1998 The Cultural Coop, Stone Ridge, NY
1977 Bennett College, Millbrook, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 "Distance", curated exhibition, Dorsky Gallery, NYC
2019 "Sanctuary", curated exhibition, Burnett Gallery, Woodstock
2016, Far and Wide juried regional exhibition, WAAM
2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, juried regional exhibitions, ASK
2013 New Directions, '13 National Contemporary Art Exhibit Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Juried by Susan Sayre Batton, (Managing Director, DIA museum, Beacon)
2013 Invitational 3 – Person Exhibition, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY
2013 Black and White Art juried regional exhibition, Woodstock School of Art
2013 ProcidAmerica – Invitational International Exchange, Procida, Italy
2012 Invitational Exhibition, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
2012 Abstract Drawing Exhibition, Doghouse Gallery, Saugerties, NY
2011 Invitational Exhibition, New Century Artists Gallery, NYC
2011, 2005, 2001 Palmer Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2010 Marks That Matter (juried by Gillian Jagger) Kotler Gallery, SUNY Ulster,
2007 VeronAmerica (Invitational international art exchange), Kingston, NY
2002 Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, juried show
2001 New York Law School, NYC
Other High Points
2013 Elected to the National Association of Women Artists (N.A.W.A.)
2010 Featured Artist for January 25 issue of HV Biz (Hudson Valley Business Review)
2006 CD cover Design for Voices of the Valley, (classical composers in the Hudson Valley)
2005 Designed 3 seven-foot stained glass windows, installed in Kingston’s Temple Emanuel,
2000 Lecture and slide show retrospective at SUNY Ulster
1980-1993 Designed and painted 10+ theater sets
1971 Established Art Department at St. Ann's Lower School, Brooklyn, NY
Included in the permanent collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, and in private collections across the US.