ARTIST STATEMENT:
As an only child, growing up in brooklyn, I loved nature and working with art materials. I wanted to be an artist. I intensely disliked elementary and high school, (probably because I had trouble paying attention), but enjoyed reading, especially books about foreign cultures.
I Often cut school. I would walk to nearby Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, enjoyed the beautifully landscaped areas, the floral displays and catching frogs and tadpoles.
i Attended Queens College for Studio Art, and then, was accepted into their small M.F.A. Program. Although I began painting abstractly, soon, I needed to represent people and landscape. I was striving to paint figure compositions from imagination, but to do that, I first needed to gather information, so I painted self portraits, still-lives and landscapes. For many years, my main interest was composing figure compositions from imagination.
Now, I am more interested in working directly from observation. contemporary Art, although I will always love more traditional painting, I am now interested in th work of my contemporaries.
Drawing, Color and Composition are my strengths. over the past several months, i have begun making a series of cardboard assemblages which emphasize these qualities.
Although I had my first solo show in 1987 at the Mountaintop Gallery in windham in 1987, I only began to exhibit regularly about 10 years ago.