My work is an expression of imagined space created through color and spatial relationships. When painting an interior, for instance, I do not consider the obvious chairs, walls, and floors to be the subject of the piece. Rather, the elaborated relationships among these elements help comprise the content of the painting. I prefer to work from life and compose simultaneously with drawing and color. My color is often expressive rather than descriptive; it is used to constitute form and to create tension.

Each painting is a translation of the rhythms, harmonies and balances I perceive among real objects within a real environment. By synthesizing those sensations I experienced directly from seeing the objects themselves, I hope to arrive at an original conception of pictorial space. I want a space that is at once descriptive of tangible objects, and at the same time pictorially intangible. This very personal space is created by my use of color and the compositional placement of images within the painting. I want my art to embody two worlds – the human accessibility of one and the pure intensity of the other – realism and abstraction, objective and non-objective, known and unknown.

EDUCATION
Pratt Institute 1981 M.F.A. in Painting  Cum Laude
1980 Ford Foundation Grant for Painting
Herron School of Art/
Indiana University 1978 B.F.A. in Painting Magna Cum Laude
Purdue University 1970 – 1973

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 Book Illustrator: “I Want To Go Outside To Play”
2002 – 2014 Teacher in Millburn School District
1995 – 2002 Teacher in South Orange/Maplewood School District
1993 – 1994 Owner: Village Artworks – Studio Art School
1988 – 1994 Drawing, Pastel and Painting Instructor
1973 – 1979 Fashion Illustrator: Belk Store Services, Wm. H. Block Co.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Faber Birren Color Award Show”
Stamford, Connecticut

“Inspiring Minds”
Valley Arts Gallery, Orange, NJ

Featured Artist – July
Millburn Library Gallery

“Arborescence”
Hamilton Street Gallery
Bound Brook, NJ

2018 “Open Orange”
Valley Arts Gallery, Orange, NJ

“Come As You Are”
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ
2017 “Metro 30” (redux)
cWoW City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey

Cl9ud
Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2012 “PreView-PostView” Exhibition
Pierro Gallery, South Orange, New Jersey

Students of Enrique Flores Galbis
New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts

2011 – 2012 “Metro 28” Traveling Show
City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey

2009 “Wish You Were Here”
A.I.R. Gallery
New York, New York

1993 “10th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”
The Arts Council of the Essex Area
Montclair, New Jersey
FIRST PRIZE: WORKS ON PAPER

“Small Works Exhibit”
Watchung, New Jersey

1992 “9th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”
The Arts Council of the Essex Area
Roseland, New Jersey

1990 Robin Hutchins Gallery
Maplewood, New Jersey

1989 Juried Show ‘89”
New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts
Summit, New Jersey
Juror: David Pease

“6th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”
The Arts Council of the Essex Area
Roseland, New Jersey

1988 “Small Wall Works”
Amos Eno Gallery
New York, New York

“5th Annual Juried Art Exhibition”
The Arts Council of the Essex Area
Roseland, New Jersey
FIRST PRIZE: PASTEL

1986 “Works on Paper ’86”
Selena Gallery, Long Island University
Brooklyn, New York

“Faber Birren Color Award Show”
Stamford, Connecticut
Juror: Barbara Haskell
SAA MERIT AWARD

1980 “Studio Scholar Awards Show”
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Staten Island, New York

1978 “The Chair Show”
Herron Gallery
Indianapolis, Indiana