I started out as a poet. Eventually the images behind words and phrases
became more important than the words themselves and became my primary
focus. For a confusing couple of years I painted over poems and wrote
over painting.Formal art training, museum studies and experience hasn’t removed me from enchantment with the beauty of a line and the space surrounding it.
Making something from nothing is central to most artists. For me that includes exploring new media while keeping in touch with classical processes-- an interesting tightrope. Right now I am combining elements of painting, drawing, Polaroid transfer process and monoprinting.
From studying paintings, working around other artists, foreign travel and life experience, the collaborative process is a natural direction to take. It is still developing.
EXHIBITIONS
Individual
2009 “ An Apple A Day”
Studio Gallery, Washington DC
2007 “ The Third Artist”
Studio Gallery, Washington DC
2005 “Classic Cars,” Norman Parish
Gallery, Washington DC
2004 “All’s Fare,” Studio Gallery,
Washington DC
2002 “ Now” Charles Sumner Museum,
Washington, DC
2001 “Alonetogether” Studio
Gallery, Washington, DC2000
2000 “Unexpected Harmony”
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Wash. DC
2000 ”Places”, Washington Gas , Project Brasas,
Washington DC
2000 “The Nudes” Micro-Gallery, Project
Brasas, Washington DC
1999 "Places in the Landscape, ”Studio Gallery
Washington, DC.
1996 "Organic Systems" Studio Gallery,
Washington, DC
1995 "On the Way Here", Main Street Gallery,
Chincoteague, VA
1993 "Backstage Alaska", Studio Gallery,
Washington, DC
1986 "Recent Works", National Geological
Society Gallery, Washington, DC
1985 Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the
Arts, McLean, VA
1982 Slavin Gallery, Washington, DC
1980 Canal House Gallery, Washington, DC
1979 Centre des Echanges Culturels, Kigali,
Rwanda, Gallerie Entremonde, Paris
1978 Galleries D'Egmont, Brussels
Juried (group)
2008 “ From Farm to Market”
VisArts at Rockville, Rockville MD
2008 “Collaboration: A Way of Work”
, VisArts at Rockville, Rockville MD
2007 “Inspired by…” VisArts at
Rockville, Rockville Maryland
2005 “In the Garden”, Studio
Gallery, Washington DC
2004 “in2Words” Words, Target
Gallery at the Torpedo Gallery Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2003 “Landscapes” American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington , DC
2003 “Collaboration” TIXE Gallery,
New York, NY
22003 “Art as Activism” Marlborough
Artists, New Marlborough, MA
2003 “Black and White”, Studio
Gallery, Washington, DC
2003 “Cuba Now!” Charles Sumner
Museum, Washington, DC
2002 “Party Animals”, Washington, DC
2001 ART and SCIENCE, National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing,
China
1999 Marlborough Artists, New Marlborough, MA
1997,96 Physics Center, Annapolis, MD
1996-1988, annually "Artist Teacher”,
Charles Sumner Museum, Washington, DC
2002-1992, semi- annually "The Garden Room
Show”, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
1995 "Three Points of View" Rockville Arts
Center, Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD
1994 Hemicycle, Corcoran Museum of Art,
Washington, DC
1990 "7" Studio Gallery,
Washington, DC
1987 "The Altered Image",
Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
1986 Washington Project for
the Arts, Washington, DC;, Rutgers National Works on Paper Invitational
1985 Mid-Atlantic Arts
Invitational, Washington, DC br />
1984 "Urban Art", Sam Gilliam,
juror, Washington, DC
Selected Works in Collections
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
American Higher Education Association, Washington, DC
American Embassy, Brussels , Belgium
American Embassy, Nouakchott
Neptune Products, Tupelo Mississippi
Continental Can Company, Brussels , Belgium
Villas by Linda Smith, Washington, DC, Jamaica
Venute Interiors, McLean VA
Commissions
General Services Administration, Washington, DC, Outdoor Mural, 12th
Street, NW
N Street Village, Washington, DC
Professional Experience
2005-2009
Director of Exhibitions and Programming VisArts at Rockville
2002-2005
Consulting Curator, 2004-05 Interim Director, Team Cluss,
The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, the German Historical
Institute, The
Goethe-Institut, The Historical Society of Washington DC and City
Museum, Smithsonian
Institution’s Office of Architectural History, the Goethe Institute,
Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn
(Germany).
1989-2002
Curator of Exhibits, Charles Sumner School Museum, Washington
DC
1990-1993
Creator and publisher of the Artist/Teacher:
1981-1993 Chair, Art
Department, Fillmore Arts Center, Washington, DC.
General
Born:
New York, NY
Education
Art Student’s League, NY, NY
Hunter College, B.A., NY NY
Bank Street College of Education MSE, Fine Arts, Arts Administration,
NY, NY
Parsons School of Art and Design, MSE, Fine Arts, Arts Administration,
NY, NY