Looking at ways in which artists bring their heritage, their personal stories, and their hands into their electronic/digital art has long been a research thrust and influence upon my own art practice. I look to both the approach and techniques of traditional fine artists as much as I look to the logic, power, and open-endedness of experimental computer pioneers. I merge manipulated/painted and photographic imagery with digital mark-making through line, motif and texture, using a complex layering process. Allowing just the right amount of one layer’s imagery to blend with another’s can be seen as a metaphor for the balance between the old and the current. This suggests a dichotomy concerning what is handmade and digitally made, which curators have labeled as my delicate ‘balance between the hand and machine.’ Enabling the organic – or more human – to reassert itself over the machine has been a constant focus in my work.

There are societal concerns, often linked to the personal stories mentioned above, ever-present in my work as well; social justice and specifically refugee crises, environmentalism and feminism are referenced. As I produced work in the second decade of the 21st century, I researched the art and literature of 20th century genocides and mass migrations, such as the Holocaust, and applied artistry and visual technology to respond to this all-too-persistent plight of humanity. The rise of Black Lives Matter, ethnophobia, and the rise of white supremacism in the US and Europe only intensifies the need to look at, reflect upon and discuss such plagues of our day, a repeating pattern laid down long ago. In my current work, I present varied depictions of this forced emigration – the flight from terror and danger – from ancient times to the present with a focus on African colonialism and the Middle East/Syrian situation. While the experience of war, genocide, and slavery are obviously wretched, I seek to seduce the viewer with color, pattern and materials, only to then offer up this painful subtext. I am not interested in ghastly imagery, but rather in luring someone in and creating a thought-provoking moment.

My art practice combines an interest in textiles and surface design, book arts and experimental printmaking. Because I often reference the history of craft by our ancestors, graphic work on fiber and paper and traditional needlework, this work presents an innovative – plus environmentally sensitive – blend of art disciplines, new and old. In investigating abstract-storytelling imagery, from manipulated photo-montage to graphic and linear patterning, balanced with my visual explorations into art/craft history, I hope that these pieces present poetic stories, some more wistful than others. Mixed media art is my vehicle for grappling with technology versus the spiritual soul, social justice – replete with our current backsliding into hate, and patterns of both resistance and change. Through this new work, I invite viewers to be pensive, watchful and considerate about the rights of minorities, women and refugees and to perhaps grow/expand their perception in the process. And in the end I deeply appreciate that our society allows freedom of expression and political statements, and that this art, and art of resistance, is free to hang in a public space.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Naess Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, CA
2017 Dryfoos Gallery, Patterns of Refuge, Kean University, Union, NJ
2015 Oslo Jewish Museum, Objects of August, Oslo, Norway
2014 Valley Rd. Center, Art, Holocaust & Teaching, WPUniv.-Wayne, NJ
Lenox-Cafe 60 Gallery, Harlem Heirlooms, New York, NY
2013 Farleigh Dickenson University, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Heirlooms, Teaneck, NJ
2012 Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center , Bloomfield, NJ
2010 Karpeles Manuscript Museum, The Prague Project: Artists Books, Newburgh, NY
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
2009 Jewish Heritage Museum of NJ, En/fold: Artist’s Books, Freehold, NJ
2008 Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, Broken Bindings, New Brunswick, NJ
2007 Leonard Hansen Gallery, Books, Scrolls & Prints, Englewood, NJ
Englewood Library and Media Center, Englewood, NJ
2006 Eclectica Gallery, Between Nature & Machine, Dumont, NY
The PCFL Atrium Gallery, Paths, Prayers, and Other Prints, Franklin Lakes, NJ
2005 Gildas Club of NJ, Red Door Gallery, Hackensack, NJ
2004 Haworth Center Gallery, Softwear & Word, Bergen County, NJ
2002 Power Art Center Gallery, E-Touch: Digital Images, Wayne, NJ
1999 Paterson Free Library Gallery, Digital Journals, Paterson NJ
1998 J. Harms Center for the Arts, (now BERGEN PAC), Englewood, NJ
93 South Gallery, Recent Work: Collage & Story Quilts, Nyack, NY
1997 Main Street Art Gallery, Digital Collage, Nyack, NY
Old Church Cultural Center Gallery, Cyberquilts, Demarest, NJ
1995 Louis Bay 2nd Memorial Library Atrium Gallery, Hawthorne, NJ
1991 Vorhees Art Gallery, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY

SELECTED JURIED & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2018 SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Council, Origins & Journeys, Vancouver, CA
Bojagi Contemporary Art, Trade Cntr Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2017 NJ State Museum, NJ Art Annual: Special Edition, Trenton, NJ
2016 Food for the Soul Creativity, Tiny Book Show,Traveling/USA
2015 SIGGRAPH – Altered Books: Digital Intervention, online
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Readers Art.., Minneapolis, MN
2014 Hamilton Street Gallery & Arts Guild New Jersey, The New Scroll, Bound Brook + Rahway, NJ
Trenton City Museum, PaperWork, Trenton, NJ,
2013 Sheffield Intern’l Artists Book Prize, Arts Council – England, UK
Islip Art Museum, International Book Art Biennial, East Islip, NY
2012 Athenaeum Museum of Philadelphia, The Decorated Book, Phl.,PA
SIGGRAPH:Digital Arts Council,http://arts.siggraph.org/environment
Maloney Art Gallery- College of St. Elizabeth, Holy Lives in World Religions, Morristown, NJ
2011 Noyes Art Museum, Gleanings, Oceanville, NJ
New Orleans Uptown Jewish Center, People of the Book, N.O., LA
2009 Booksmart Studio, Alternative Process Printmaking, Rochester, NY Afrigraph (SIGGRAPH/Africa), International Art &
Animation Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa
American Impressions, Ben Shahn Galleries, Wayne, NJ *prize
2008 Montclair Art Museum, Tribal Roots in the Garden State, NJ
Booksmart Studio, 1st Annual Alternative Process Printing, NY
A.I.R. Gallery, Generations 6, New York, NY
2007 Noyes Museum of Art, The Art and Craft Concept, Oceanville, NJ
H&R Block Artspace, Surface Design Invited, Kansas City, MO
International Symposium on Digital Art & Online Gallery 2007
D-ART, Bangkok, Thailand
NJ Small Works, Old Church Cultural Ctr., Demarest, NJ *prize
2006 Morris Museum, New Jersey Arts Annual, Morristown, NJ
Bliss Art Museum, Fiber/Books: New Forms, Steamboat Springs, CO
2005 IDAA/International Digital Art Awards 05, Internet Gallery &
QUT Art Museum, VCA Gallery/Melbourne, Australia & China
FGS Gallery, Diversity of Printmaking, Korean Art Ctr, Englewood, NJ
Arts Guild New Jersey, The Assembled Image, Rahway, NJ
Phoenix Gallery, Common Thread, New York, NY
2004 IDAA/International Digital Art Awards 04, Internet & worldwide
Noyes Museum of Art, New Horizons, Oceanville, NJ
2003 Kemper Contemporary Art Museum, Textile Art, Kansas City, MO
Rutgers University Dana Gallery, World Paper II, Newark, NJ
2002 Nexus Gallery, Mixing it Up, Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Weatherhead Gallery, Computer Art International, Ft. Wayne, IN
Kentucky State Univ. Digital Art International, Frankfort, KY
San Jose Museum-Textiles, Fine Focus’02, Traveling+ San Jose, CA
2001 N-Space SIGGRAPH 2001 Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show, Cape Town, South Africa &
other international sites)
2000 8th International Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, NYC, NY
Morris Museum, New Jersey Arts Annual, Morristown, NJ
1999 Virtual Artifacts, Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne, NJ (Curator & artist)
Digital Muse, Jewett Arts Ctr., Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey Arts Annual, Trenton, NJ
7th Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
1998 SIGGRAPH 98: Touchware, Orlando, FL
OldMain Art Museum,Computer Artists to Watch, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ
Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey Arts Annual, Oceanville, NJ
1997 Silicon Gallery, Small Computers in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Charno Gallery, Young American Textile Artists, Kansas City MO
Yeiser Art Center, Fantastic Fibers, Paducah, KY
1996 New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey Arts Annual, Trenton, NJ
Redwoods Book Arts Exhibition, Humboldt Univ., Eureka, CA
Eurographics 96, Poitiers Conference Gallery, Poitiers, France
1995 LA 95: SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 ISEA The Art Factor: 4th International Symposium of Electronic
Art, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN
Eurographics 93, Palao De Congressos, Barcelona, Spain *Finalist*
Franklin Institute Museum, Philadelphia, PA
1990 Eurographics 90, MultiMedia Exhibit, Montreaux, Switzerland
1989 Combined Media, Vorhees Art Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Fine Arts Museum of Long Island,5th Annual Juried Exhibition:
Computer Art & Video, NY
Arts Council at Freeport, Freeport, NY *Electronic Art Award
1987 City College Art Gallery, Artists & the Electronic Age, CUNY, NY
Leonard Davis Art Center, Visible Light: Computer Art, NY, NY
1986 Parsons Gallery, COMPUTER ART: Two Views, Parsons School
of Art & Design, New York, NY
1985 ADP World Headquarters Atrium Gallery, COMPUTER ART:
A New Art Form, Roseland, NJ

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018 Bojagi & Beyond, Beyond & Above Publications, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Keannews, Kean University Gallery Exhibitions Explore Refugees and
War, Schane A. Flowers, Fall 2017
Kean University Galleries Booklet, Patterns of Refuge, 2017-18
2016 Spring 2 Catalog Cover Montclair Adult School; Print/Online, 4/16
2015 Proceedings – 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art
The Scroll Unfurled & Disruption in Reconstruction, Vancouver 8/15
The Star-Ledger, Booked 12 at Pierro Gallery…, Newark, NJ 3/22
2014 Jewish Standard, Scrolling Through Art, Northern NJ, April 18
Courier News, Bound Brook Gallery Showcases Artistic Rebirth
of Scrolls, Somerville, NJ. March 15
Emergence, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, June
2012 Textiles: The Art of Mankind, M. Schoesser, Thames & Hudson, London
2011 Text/Context, Jewish Week, Recovered Memories, NY, NY, 2/25
Professional Artist, Imagine..Digital/Traditional Hybrid Process, July
Surface Design, Embracing Ritual Art, Oakland, CA, Summer
2010 MidHudson (NY) Times, Artists Books & Monotypes, NY, 5/19
Orange County NY Arts News, Exhibitions, NY, May
2009 New Jersey Jewish News, Fabrics of Creativity, NJ (Central), 9/22
Art Times, Alternative Digital Printmaking & its Tribal Roots,
CSS Publications, NY, April
2008 Journal of New Media & Culture, Visualization, Summer Vol. 5
2006 Surface Design Journal: Photographic Surfaces, The Inkjet
Printer: a Versatile Tool, Oakland, CA, Fall
2005 Desktop: Australian Design: Digital Culture, Australia, April
2003 Review, A Tapestry of Exhibitions, Kansas City, MO, p. 11, June
2001 Press Journal, Nobler Exhibits Artwork, Englewood, NJ 2/8
2000 Surface Design, Reviews, Oakland, CA, Winter Edition
Leonardo, Journal of Art and Technology: MIT Press, MA, Fall
1999 The Star-Ledger, Computer Showcased…for Artists, Lisa Rose, 3/19
New York Times, On the Towns, 4/4
FIBER ARTS DESIGN Book 6, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
1998 New Jersey Arts Annual: Transcending Tradition, COVER ART,
Stacy Smith, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ, 6/11
Nanjing Art News, Nanjing, China, 11/15
Surface Design, Exposure, Oakland, CA, Spring 1998
1997 The New York Times, New-Fangled Approaches to Traditional
Craft, Wm. Zimmer, Sunday 8/10
Whats In the Air: Young American Textile Artists, Surface
Design Association, Kansas City, MO
1996 The Press-Journal, Palisades Newspapers, Englewood, NJ 12/5
1995 FIBER ARTS DESIGN Book 5, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
1993 The Star-Ledger, Exhibit Decks the Halls…, Newark, NJ 12/3
1990 MICRO-MACRO, Publication of the Hunter Art Galleries,
New York, NY
1991 Computer Graphics Career Handbook, Siggraph-ACM Press,
New York, NY
1988 The New York Times, Computer Imaging on Display, Helen
Harrison, Sunday Edition, 1/3
1987 The Star-Ledger, ART: Future Visions, Eileen Watkins, Newark,
NJ, Sunday Edition, 12/13

EDUCATION
1992 M.F.A. Master of Fine Arts, Combined Media, Hunter College,
City University of New York, New York, NY honors
1985 M.A. Communication/Computer Graphics, New York Institute
of Technology, New York, NY
1980 B.F.A. University of Michigan School of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Magna Cum Laude

TEACHING
2000-17 Associate Professor, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ;
Department of Art
1985-00 Assistant Professor/Instructor, William Paterson University,
Wayne, NJ; Department of Art
1985 Instructor, Kean College, Union, NJ; Department of Art

PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS (partial list)
2017 11th Annual Conference: Design Principles & Practices, Scroll Un-
furled: New Interpretations of the Earliest Technology, Toronto, CA
2015 ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art), The Scroll
Unfurled – Ancient to Vanguard, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, The New Scroll, Silver Spring, MD
2013 Farleigh Dickenson University, Heirlooms in World Culture,
Teaneck, NJ
Trenton City Museum, PaperWork: Artists Spotlight, Trenton, NJ
2012 Oakeside Cultural Ctr. & WPU Research and Scholarship Day,
Metallic Digital Printmaking Techniques, Bloomfield/Wayne, NJ
2011 Noyes Art Museum, Interpreting History with Digital Art,
Oceanville, NJ
2010 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, the Book(R)evolution, Digital
Printmaking for Book Arts, Silver Spring, MD
2009 Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth, En/fold: Ritual-Inspired
Artists Books, Freehold, NJ
2008 Montclair Art Museum, Tribal Roots in the Garden State, (New
Jersey Arts Annual), Montclair, NJ
2007 Surface Design Association/SAQA/Wayne Art Center, Digital
Approaches, Wayne, PA
Englewood Library/Media Cntr, Artists Books & Their Roots, NJ
2006 The PCFL Atrium Gallery, Paths, Prayers, and Other Prints:
Digital Printmaking, Franklin Lakes, NJ
2005 Gildas Club, Digital Printmaking: Spiritual Influences, Metro-NJ
Phoenix Gallery, Common Thread: Digital Styles, NYC (‘audio-track’)
2004 Rutgers University Dana Gallery, Digital Printmaking -World
Paper Challenge II, Newark, NJ
2003 Kansas City Art Institute, Creative Digital Printmaking for
Surface Designers, Kansas City, MO
2001 N-Space SIGGRAPH International Conference, Art Panel:
Tactile Digital Printmaking, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Artist in Residence (Mixed-Media), Noyes Art Museum/
Burlington County Board of Education, South Jersey, NJ

AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014/17/19 Center for Creative Activity & Research, CoAC, Wayne, NJ
2013 Puffin Foundation, Ltd., Artist Project Grant, Teaneck, NJ
2012 University of Michigan School of Art & Design, 9 x 9 x 9,
Jury 1st Place Award, Ann Arbor, MI
Citra Solve Art, Art From the Heart *Honorable Mention
2011 Center for Creative Activity & Research, CoAC-WPU, Wayne, NJ
2009 Artist Development Grant, Surface Design Association,
Oakland, CA
2009 American Impressions (Willie Cole – Juror), Ben Shahn Gallery,
Wayne, NJ *Honorable Mention
2007 New Jersey Small Works, Old Church Cultural Ctr., Demarest,
NJ *Honorable Mention
2004-05 International Digital Art Awards, Sydney, Australia
1997-03 Surface Design Association, Travel Grants, International
Conferences, Oakland, CA (1997, 2000, 2003)
1991-18 Career Development Grants for Arts Research, William
Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
1993 EUROGRAPHICS 93, Professional Fine Arts Finalist, 2nd
Place  USA, Barcelona, Spain
1988 Electronic Media Prize Award, Arts Council of Freeport, NY
1987 Harriet Rutter Eagleson Grant, Hunter College/CUNY, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Private collections list available upon request
Human Rights Institute, Kean University, Union, NJ,Oslo Jewish Museum, Oslo, Norway
Vilna Goan State Jewish Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania,Sheffield International Artists Book Prize, Sheffield University, UK, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Cofrin Artists Books Collection at UW-Green Bay, Wisconsin, Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth, Freehold, NJ. North Jersey History and Genealogy Center @ Morristown, Artists.  Books Collection, NJ, Academy of Jewish Museum Berlin, Library/Artists Book Collection, Berlin, Germany. Tulane University Hillel Center, New Orleans, LA, Westchester County, Office For Women, Westchester, NY, Cleveland Museum of Art, Print-on-Demand Collection, Cleveland, OH, Penny Dell, Past President – National Association of Women in the Arts, New Paltz, NY, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, Temple Beth El of Northern Valley, Closter, NJ,  Presbyterian Church of Franklin Lakes, Graphic Art Collection, Franklin Lakes, NJ, Holland & Knight, LLP; New York, NY, Carol Mainardi, Director/PCFL Atrium Gallery, Franklin Lakes & Kinnelon, NJ, Main Street Center for the Arts, Director’s Office, Nyack, NY, Sondra Ravin Interiors, New York & New Jersey, Oakeside Cultural Center, Bloomfield, NJ,  Abrams & McKeever, PC, Cresskill, NJ, Salvo Law LLP, Fairfield, NJ
Sharyn Hall Designs, Interiors & Textiles, Australia,