I started making art in the early 1960s using my mother’s paint-by-number colors. During the 1970s, after studying art and art history, I made large paintings of color fields and grids. Color was the subject of my art. By the end of the decade I gradually felt the desire to depict objects, places and figures.
I also started to use the camera as a tool to record visual interests. Both with my painting and photography I strive to integrate and exploit the formal qualities of spatial description, color, patterning and compositional structure that I applied to abstract art.
Currently my painting is a dialog with what I see in my environment. The painting subjects have included landscapes close to where I reside and depictions of family members and activities.
My photography has birthed three unique projects. A series of reflection photographs recorded through urban glass shot at an angle. The images are a result of the reflection, refraction and light diffraction. The bending of light combines views of interior spaces with a reversed mirrored repositioned external environment. Three years ago I started recording a series of non-urban, non-suburban Pennsylvania photographs. This project is an attempt through image reportage to explore the narrative of cultural splintering. For the last eight years I’ve been documenting Lancaster Avenue and SEPTA’s Number 10 Trolley viewed as a habitat, a place to shop and a transportation artery.
It’s important for me to spend time looking at historical and contemporary art thinking about how it relates to my art practice.
Artist Biography
I studied painting and art history at Community College of Philadelphia,Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania. In the 70s I was a founding member of Bricolage, a performing art collective and Wilma Theater. For twenty years I designed media for numerous theater and dance performances. My media design work lead to a growing interest in photography. During the 80s I started to exhibit photography. For the last 40 years I exhibited painting and photography. In 1990 I was fortunate to receive a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
Education
1974 - 1975 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
1973 Philadelphia College of Art Philadelphia, PA
1970 - 1972 Community College of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
Continuing Education
University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA
Awards & Honors
2019 PHOTOGRAPHY 2019, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA Honorable Mention Award
2017 PHOTOGRAPHY 2017, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA 2nd Place Award
Open Lens III, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Honorable Mention Award
2016 Open Lens II, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 1st Place Award
2015 PHOTOGRAPHY 2015, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA Honorable Mention Award
Something Cool, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA 2nd Place Award
2014 Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA Director's Award
1994 Juried Work on Paper Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Wohl Award
1992 Juried Art Exhibition, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA 1st Place Award
1991 Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA Honorable Mention Award
1985 Community College of Philadelphia Photography Department Competition and Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA 1st Place Award
Fellowships
1990 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship
Professional Experience
Media and Theater Design
Founding member of Bricolage Theater, Collaboratory Theater, and Wilma Theater
Designed and produced media for numerous theater and dance performance groups
Lectures & Talks
1989 "Hand-Colored Photographs: History and Techniques" Lecture at Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Exhibitions
Solo
2018 Welcome Gallery, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
1988 Painting and photography, Tripoli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Invitational exhibition, paintings and photographs, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Two-Person
2019 Two-person exhibit with Sunjeon Grissom, Da Vinci Art Alliance @ Atria Senior Living, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2019 PHOTOgraphy 2019, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Visual Democracy, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Being There: Black & White, Photography, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
156th Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Professional Artist Members Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Lens on Latin America, International House Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Works on Paper, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Constructing A Body, InLiquid Gallery @ Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Summer of Love, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
PHOTOgraphy 2018, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Motion Pictured, International House Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Rocky (RE) Run, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
155th Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Looking Forward, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Open Lens IV, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
Personally Speaking, International House Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Professional Artist Members Exhibition, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
2017 404, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
Spring Gala Exhibition 2017, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
154th Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Professional Artist Members Exhibition, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
2016 A Second Language, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
PHOTOgraphy 2016, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Spring Gala Exhibition 2016, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
153rd Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
A Celebration of Color, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
Professional Artist Members Exhibition, Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
2015 Art Department's 50th Year Exhibition, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Eyes Wide Open, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
6th Annual Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
152nd Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Collaboration Exhibition, Plastics Club, Philadelphia, PA
Open Lens, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
2014 You Are What You Eat, Plastics Club, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
Some Like It Hot, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA Juried Exhibition
1995 The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
1994 Images of the Family, Laurie W. and Irvin J. Borowsky Gallery at the YMHA, Philadelphia, PA Invitational
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Convergence Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Photo Works '94, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1993 The State Museume of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
1992 Works on Paper, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Juried Exhibition
Annual Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
1991 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellows Touring Exhibition Johnston Art Museum Blair Art Museum University Art Gallery of Pittsburgh Everhart Museum Bruce Gallery of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Westminster College University of the Arts
1990 62nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
1989 Invitational Photography Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
1988 Photoart '88, Deming Center for the Arts, Deming, NM
Tripoli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
60th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
1987 Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
1985 Community College of Philadelphia Photography Department Competition and Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA 1st Place Award
