Artist Statement
Angsting over starting a new series -thinking of isolation; thinking of the madness of the last three years; thinking of the insecurity of our future physically and politically. Wondering how to express doom in a way that uses intense colors and the power and simplicity of a single shape. After the first two pieces I realized that I was being influenced by one of my favorite painters Phillip Guston. He was a master of taking an extremely serious subject and expressing it in a cartoonish style - bringing us in with a pleasant color scheme and playful shapes and smacking us with reality. I entitled this series RUINS -the ruins created by climate change and denial. The pieces evolving by multi-layering with acrylic and oils building texture and expression. In four and a half months they became a series of forty pieces.
Awards & Honors
2011
2011 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Painting
2000
Fleisher Challenge, Philadelphia, PA
Bibliography
Publications
Park Towne Place Catalog
NJ State Council on the Arts, Fellowship catalog 2012
New Art International
Q-Bix Gallery Magazine September 2006 issue
Westin Hotel’s uwishunu “Room 414” catalog
AxD Gallery catalog
Collections
SAP Software Corporation, Germany
Bank of America, Wilmington, DE
NY Presbyterian Children’s Hospital/Morgan Stanley, NY
Cooper/Anderson Cancer Hospital, NJ
Morgan Lewis Legal Firm, Princeton, NJ
Liberty Properties, Malvern, PA
Boston Consulting Group, Philadelphia, PA
Jenkins and Martin L.L.P., Beaumont, TX
Psychology Dept. Princeton University, NJ
Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA
Murano Condominium, Philadelphia, PA
State of New Jersey
& many public & private collections
Commissions
Liberty Properties, Malvern, PA
Two posters for Fleisher Art Memorial
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Section of Aids Quilt for Names Project
Design of Collingswood Centennial History Book
Four calendars for Borough of Collingswood
Design of T-Shirt for Rutgers University
