ABOUT
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my work I am interested in how a single world and consequently a single work of art could be colliding within itself. I find interesting the dichotomy that divides a thing into two equal and contradictory parts. Writers often use this technique for creating conflicts within a single character, good and evil, real and imaginary, male and female, primitive or civilized. The borders seem clean cut for science, we are dead with no pulse or alive and breathing. However, religion states the body’s functions stop but the soul might continue on. Common sense tells us when something is light or dark, yet this perception is influenced by the environment in which we observe it. I am interested when our perception seems to be failing us. Visual art has stemmed from a discordant figure-ground relationship that puts two planes, foreground and background, in a tense and contradictory juxtaposition, perspective illusion or chromatic tension. Perceptual multistability, switching between two or more interpretations of an image under continuous viewing, can be evoked by visual patterns that are too ambiguous for the human visual system to recognize with one unique interpretation. I am interested in that intrinsic duality: two dimensional versus three dimensional, realism versus abstraction, foreground versus background, receding versus forwarding, attraction versus repulsion.
I am looking for a surface tension maximized to the point at which an actual pulsation or flickering is perceived by the human eye. I am less interested by a painting as an object than as a generator of perceptual responses.
EXHIBITIONS
2025 UPSTATE OPEN STUDIOS-UPSTATE ART WEEKEND HUDSON VALLEY
CONFINED, CMA GALLERY, Mount Saint Mary College,Newburgh NY
HOLIDAY SHOW, LABSPACE, HILLSDALE NY
2024 BEACON OPEN STUDIOS-UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, THE YARD, BEACON, NY
HOLIDAY SHOW, LABSPACE, HILLSDALE, NY
2023 PLAIDS, Industrial Arts Brewery, Beacon
IN PURSUIT OF COLOR, Curated by Alan Goolman, THE LOCKWOOD GALLERY, KINGSTON, NY
HOLIDAY SHOW, LABSPACE, HILLSDALE, NY
2022 BEACON OPEN STUDIOS-UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, THE LANDMARK, BEACON, NY
DARE TO BE SQUARE, Curated by Paulien Lethen and Judy Thomas, HOLLAND TUNNEL GALLERY NEWBURGH,NY
HOLIDAY SHOW, LABSPACE, HILLSDALE, NY
2021 MOHAWK HUDSON REGIONAL 2021, Juror Tommy Gregory, Tammis K. Groft Award, ALBANY, NY
THE ESSENTIAL LINE, Curated by Kirsten Kucer, Krasdale Art Spaces, WESTCHESTER, NY
SAUNDERS FARM at Tilly Foster Farm, BREWSTER, NY
ARTQUAKE, Curated by David Provan, Director’s Choice Award, GARRISON ART CENTER, NY
2020 BEACON OPEN STUDIOS, HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY, BEACON, NY
HOLIDAY SHOW, LABSPACE, HILLSDALE, NY
20/20 VISION, Curated by Judy Thomas, HOLLAND TUNNEL, NEWBURGH, NY
SAUNDERS FARM at Tilly Foster Farm, BREWSTER, NY
2019 SAUNDERS FARM, Collaborative Concepts, GARRISON, NY
2018 TWO AND A HALF, GARRISON ART CENTER,
SAUNDERS FARM, Collaborative Concepts, GARRISON, NY
TRUE NORTH, LABSPACE, HILLSDALE, NY
2017 BEACON OPEN STUDIOS, BEACON N2003 BWAC PIER SHOW XI, BROOKLYN, NY
2001 LARGE SCALE WORKS, PLANET THAÏLAND, BROOKLYN NY
1999 SHOPPING AT BIG R, INDEPENDENCE SAVINGS BANK FOUNDATION, BROOKLYN NY
SNAP JUDGEMENTS, ST FRANCIS COLLEGE, BROOKLYN NY
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION, Juror: Adam Weinberg, SOHO PHOTO GALLERY, NYC
1998 BEST OF BWAC, RIGHT BANK GALLERY, BROOKLYN NY
PIER SHOW 6, BROOKLYN NY BROOKLYN BREWERY EXHIBITION, BROOKLYN NY
1997 PIER SHOW 5, BROOKLYN NY
1996 THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, WARD-NASSE GALLERY, NYC
JURIED EXHIBITION, Pratt institute Alumni, PUCK BUILDING, NYC
1995 IMAGES LOST AND FOUND, CHASSIE POST GALLERY, SOHO, NYC
1981 ELECTRA, MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE, PARIS, FRANCE
AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS
2000 Independence Community Foundation Grant NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Grant
1999 NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Grant
1994 National Talent Search Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
1980 First Prize Biarritz Festival, France