I grew up in Riverside, CT near NYC. The influences of wasp culture juxtaposed with all my other adventures of Sufism, Feminism, Hippiedom, Kirtan, and travel, have given me a tapestry of color, rebellion, architecture, theater, and frustrating mindsets to play out in my painting.
I earned my BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. I have taken many Masterclasses with Michelle Cassou in Point Zero Painting. My love of the stage and flat perspective started with my grandmother taking me to the Metropolitan Opera as a child. I wanted to see all the sets. My color sense has been a powerful element in all I create.
I have been very lucky to be part of The Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. Geoffrey’s support, play on words, and descriptions of what I paint, have been a major boost in my art journey. I have shown in Oregon, Fire Island, NYC/Hudson Valley, New Mexico, Delaware, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, and beyond.
Artist Statement
My paintings depict my own wild, sensuous mind games. I have a fecund imagination where many narratives dwell. Using intense color, I like to play with puns, idioms, and catchphrases such as “hair shirt out the window’, ‘going for bigger britches’, and ‘the nose knows’. Viewers recently commented that my imagery is playfully innocent but with closer observation, there can be disturbing or humorous undercurrents.
I enjoy using stage, temple, and altar architectural shapes. My puzzles of spacial ambiguity and imagery show up in small, intimate gouaches and larger painterly oils.
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Education
1972-3 Silvermine College of Art, Norwalk, CT
1973-74 Silvermine Residency, Lacoste, France
1975-78 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR BFA
Selected One Person Show
2022 Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA
2010 DuPont Arts Center, Tower Hill School, Wilmington, DE
2010 Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1993-2000 Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE
1988 Delaware Contemporary
1987 Gallery One, Delaware States Arts Council
1988 Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Shows
2022 Miniature Monumental, Bristol, RI, curated by Patricia Miranda
2019 Escape curated by Sharon Gregory, Hope Davis, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2018 Casheesh, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2002-2014 Geoffrey Young Gallery
2008 “It’s Gouache and Gouache Only” Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY curated by Geoffrey Young
Selected Collections
A.G. Rosen, Wayne, NJ
Sharon Gregory, Great Barrington, MA
Maureen and John Jerome, New York, NY
Dawn Upshaw, New York, NY
Ellen Bartholomaus, Chadds Ford, PA
Thank you Geoff Young and my Philly crew
