I create imaginary, mystical landscapes in veiled and muted tones. I seek to evoke a
sense of vastness and space, faraway vistas, other planets and alternate worlds with
distant formations half seen in the
mist
--
what could they be?
I mainly work in pastel, combined at times with other media,
including oil pastel,
graphite,
china marker, watercolor...I’m always experimenting.
Perhaps it was all foreshadowed in my youth when my sixth grade teacher assigned me to
create an image of our solar system in color chalks across the classroom blackboard,
ephemeral cosmic images in pigmented dust, I continue that way today.
I have been drawing since I could hold a crayon. I
studied art at Sarah Lawrence College with sculptor Anthony Padovano, at the School
of
Visual
Arts
with illustrator Peter Kuper, and classes with comic book artist Ken
Landgraf.
My fantasy landscapes have been seen in exhibitions throughout New
Jersey and parts
of
Pennsylvania including:
- The Gallery at Mercer County Community College
- The Ellarslie Open, Annual Juried Show at the Trenton City Museum,
2022
Two
large
works at The Ellarslie Open,
2024
- The New Hope Art Center
- Multiple showings at Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick
- Barron Arts Center,
Woodbridge, NJ
- D&R Greenway Land Trust
- Artists of Yardley
- One-man show at Small World Coffee, Princeton.
My work titled Points Unknown was awarded the 2021 Mercer
County Artist
Exhibition Purchase Award by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage
Commission.
My drawing and paintings have also been seen at various venues throughout the US
including: • Ceres
Gallery in
New York City • River Oaks Art
Center/Bolton Davis Gallery, Alexandria, LA • bG Gallery, Santa Monica,
California •
Cape Fear Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
Then there are online exhibits and platforms which have also provided
exposure. These include: a virtual exhibit of 15 of my images on view at
SoloS -
10th International Solo Exhibitions hosted by Exhibizone, and on the
Biafarin.com
portal in several themed group exhibitions, Emptiness, It’s Time,
Scenic,
and
Magix, on the
HMVC Gallery site, a New York based online platform and Palm Gallery of Studio
City,
Ca, as part of their online Interplay of Shadows, Light, and Colors. In
2023,
large projections of
my artworks served as a backdrop for the Roxey Ballet’s annual River Dance
Festival
of choreography in New Hope, PA.
Here is my spot illustration in New York's The Village Voice published
back in
1993: Village Voice
. I was also published in
World War 3 Illustrated
Magazine. In 1994 I was a finalist in The Artist's Magazine
All-Media Art
Competition in the category of pen and ink for this subway design Subway drawing
.I am also a professional
musician.
Two large works at The Ellarslie Open, 2024
My work titled Points Unknown was awarded the 2021 Mercer County Artist Exhibition Purchase Award by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission. My drawing and paintings have also been seen at various venues throughout the US including: • Ceres Gallery in New York City • River Oaks Art Center/Bolton Davis Gallery, Alexandria, LA • bG Gallery, Santa Monica, California • Cape Fear Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
Then there are online exhibits and platforms which have also provided exposure. These include: a virtual exhibit of 15 of my images on view at SoloS - 10th International Solo Exhibitions hosted by Exhibizone, and on the Biafarin.com portal in several themed group exhibitions, Emptiness, It’s Time, Scenic, and Magix, on the HMVC Gallery site, a New York based online platform and Palm Gallery of Studio City, Ca, as part of their online Interplay of Shadows, Light, and Colors. In 2023, large projections of my artworks served as a backdrop for the Roxey Ballet’s annual River Dance Festival of choreography in New Hope, PA.
