Artist Statement
As an artist my goal is to reach something deeply felt in the collective imagination. Despite the losses of our times - climate change and the dangers it claims on our lives and future generations, the violence perpetrated on each other, COVID-19 - I find I still must create works of beauty, awareness and renewal.

The beauty of the environment of our one-and-only planet is one of my themes, as is the full consciousness of living. I wish not to “tell” a story as much as express something ineffable that touches the unconscious as well as the conscious mind. Like my artistic influences, Anselm Kiefer, Marsden Hartley, Grace Hartigan, Georgia O’Keefe, and Paul Klee my work flows between figuration and the abstract. It is emotive, contemplative and sometimes whimsical.

My shadow boxes have worlds contained in small spaces. I use re-purposed, recycled, found and broken objects in small open boxes, like the dioramas of my childhood. My hope is that my art becomes a “conversation” between the viewer and the piece.

I also enjoy creating palm bark assemblages, where whimsy, color and 3-dimensionally predominate. Palm bark is a sustainable resource that I find on the ground and then carve, paint and collage. I hope the viewer finds these pieces uplifting and humorous.

This work is my way of expressing my being in the world.
SOLO SHOWS
Palmistry, July 21-Nov 1, Old City Publishing, Philadelphia, PA
All Things Connect, Dec 4-Dec 31, 2022, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall, Dec-March 2018, Courtyard Hotel, Philadelphia Navy Yard
Mother Earth Series, September-December 2017, Or Hadash, Ft. Washington, PA
Retrospective, December 2016, The Atria, Philadelphia, PA
Lost Ice: What the Birds Saw, Jan. 2015, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Off The Wall Gallery, New Faces 2023, Jan 14-March 30, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
NY Studio School, Virtual Alumni Exhibit, Aug 8-Sept 30, 2023, Artsy Online
Plastic Club, A Summer’s Tale, July 2023, Philadelphia, PA
DaVinci Art Alliance, Our House is on Fire, May 3-23, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Powell Lane Arts, Small Works Show, Nov 22-Dec 24 2022, Collingswood, NJ
DaVinci Art Alliance, Joyous Disruption, Nov 17-Dec 16, 2022, Philadelphia, PA
Noyes Museum, Lilt, Oct 20-Jan 19, Stockton, NJ
Community Art Center, Artist Equity, Oct 22-Nov 25, Wallingford, PA
NY Studio School, Virtual Alumni Exhibit, Aug 8-Sept 30, 2022, Artsy Online 
Penn Medicine Radnor, A Celebration of Life and Art, Aug 2022-June 2023
Plastic Club, Summer Abstractions, July 3-30, 2022, Philadelphia, PA
Davinci Art Alliance, Collective Expressions, June 3-30, 2022, Phila, PA
Fairmount Waterworks, Ripple Effect, April 14-June 30, 2022, Phila PA
Henry Gallery, Avant Garde, Jan-April 7, 2022, Malvern, PA, Honorable Mention
Plastic Club, Textile, Fabric, Fiber, March 1-May 31, 2021, Online Exhibition
Penn Medicine, Celebration of Life and Art, June 2021-June 2022, Wayne, PA
Margalit Start Up, Truth to Power, Summer 2021, SoHo, NY C
Deja 42 Gallery, Masquerade, Philadelphia, PA Fall 2020
Penn Medicine, Radnor, Celebration of Life and Art, July 2020-June 2021, Wayne, PA
New York Studio School, Alumni Exhibition, July-August 2020, online exhibition  
Cerulean Arts, Annual Juried Exhibition, July-August 2020, Philadelphia, PA
DaVinci Art Alliance, Hindsight, July 2020
Cheltenham Arts Center, Philadelphia Stories 15th Anniversary Art Show, Nov.2019
Emerge Wellness, Lean In, Plant Down, Grow Up, June-Sept 27, 2019
Déjà vu Gallery, Worlds Within Worlds, June 2019
Perelman Center, Penn Medicine, Celebration of Life and Art, Sept 2018-Aug 2019
DaVinci Art Alliance, Artist, Reader, Writer, September-October 2018
The Light Box, Motion Pictured, May 22-August 19, 2018, Philadelphia, PA
Art in City Hall, Crafted Contexts, Oct-Nov 2017, Philadelphia, PA
International House, Intersections, June-September 2017, Philadelphia, PA
Legend Galleries, Conversations, March-April, 2017
DaVinci Art Alliance, Second Language, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
Crayola Gallery, The Creative Muse, Bethlehem, PA, 2016
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Absolutely Abstract, 2015
The Hatchatory, Artists Unite, September 2014, Fishtown, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, March 2014
Noyes Museum, Dream House Earth, Oceanville, NJ, 1996


Selected Exhibits

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