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Original Fine Art: Contemporary cityscapes, landscapes, and interiors

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Painting the Tiber River, Italy

About Me

I am mostly a self-taught artist, working primarily "en plein air" when the weather permits.  I also occasionally work from sketches and photos, but only of places where I've actually been.  Painting on-site, from life, comes with its challenges (wind, heat, cold, overly chatty passers-by, bugs flying into wet paint on the canvas), thrills (light hitting a brick wall a special way, gorgeous water reflections), and joys (connecting with a location's unique features and being able to capture that moment).  But mostly it requires an intense focus.  When it's all working well, painting can be a form of highly active meditation.

My goal is to find a simple way to capture the spirit of a scene at a particular instance.  Inevitably the paintings become infused with my own wonder and delight at having discovered something – a pattern, a gesture, an angle of light – that is inherently pleasing.  At best my paintings pay tribute to the abundant benefits of attentiveness. 

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Artist Statement

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Born:  Manhattan, New York

Solo and 2-person Exhibitions
In/Sight=On/Site, (with Mary Connelly) Patrons' Gallery, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, 2009
From Brooklyn to the Sea, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, NY, 2007
New York Shines, Underbridge Pictures, Brooklyn, NY, 2007
Brooklyn Views, Shakespeare's Sister, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Broad Strokes, Celia Hirsch Gallery, Chappaqua, NY, 2004
A Room of My Own, Re*Past Bakery & Café, NY, NY, 2004 

Selected Group Exhibitions
101st Annual Thumb Box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NYC, 2009
A River Runs Through It, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY, 2009
The Brooklyn Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
18th Annual Roundtable Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY, 2009
Contemporary NY Waterways, Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York, NY, 2009
Gowanus Basin: A Sense of Place, Gowanus Canal Conservancy Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
100th Annual Thumb-Box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, 2008
Black and White, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, 2008
100th Annual Members Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, 2008
118th NAWA Annual Exhibition, Monroe Center for the Arts, Hoboken, NJ, 2007
Images of Brooklyn, Underbridge Pictures, Brooklyn, NY, 2007
Small Works Invitational, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, 2007, 2004
Summertime, Underbridge Pictures, Brooklyn, NY, 2007
Summertime: From the Pool to Provence, Celia Hirsch Gallery, Chappaqua, NY, 2007
Women of the Streets, Shakespeare’s Sister, Brooklyn, NY, 2007
A Taste of Old New York, Manhattan Center for Kitchen and Bath, 2006
Sunlit Impressions, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2006
Transformations, BWAC Pier, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Home Away From Home, Liberty Condominiums, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Borough Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Brooklyn Artists, Shakespeare’s Sister, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Holiday Gift Show, Celia Hirsch Gallery, Chappaqua, NY, 2004
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Talking Hands, AIR Gallery, NY, NY, 2004
In the Midst of Things, AAWAA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Accumulative Efforts, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, 2003

Selected Biography
"Ad Hoc Artists Residency," Woodstock Times, July 2010
"Follow Your Passion Vacations," ForbesTraveler.com, April 2008 
Brooklyn Fine Arts Magazine, Fall 2007  (www.bfamagazine.com)
100 New York Painters, book by Cynthia Maris Dantzic, Schiffer Publishing Company, 2006
“From the Mayor’s Doorstep”, Review by Piri Halasz, piri.home.mindspring.com, October 2003

Awards
Vermont Studio Center, 4-week artists residence, June 2006
MTA Arts for Transit, Finalist, 2006

Events
Panelist, "Become a Savvier Art Collector," English Speaking Union, 2009
Panelist, "Become a Savvy Art Collector," Salmagundi Club, 2008

Memberships
Elected Artist Member, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Elected Artist Member, National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY
Artist Member, NY Artists Circle, New York, NY

Education
International School of Art-Umbria, Figure Drawing and Landscape Painting, Italy, 2001
Corcoran School of Art, Color Theory, Washington, DC, 1995
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Drawing and Figure Painting, Alexandria, VA, 1994
Columbia University, New York, NY, 1986
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1982

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As seen in The New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 2003:

 

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STUDIO 

Address:  168 7th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), Suite #2L, Brooklyn, NY  11215
When you get to the building, use the  buzzer intercom system -- Yang/Perlin/Barrett on the directory listing. During open studios the front door will be propped open.  Walk up one flight of stairs, through the gray door at the landing, and our suite is the first set of doors on your left.

Directions:  Visits are by appointment only, please, or during scheduled "open studio" events.  Conveniently located in Gowanus, a decidedly industrial neighborhood, between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens.  

By subway   Take the M or R to 9th Street (on 4th Avenue) station, or the F to 4th Avenue (and 9th St).  Walk 2 blocks south to 7th St on 4th Avenue, head downhill and you'll see 168 on your left.  

By car   From Manhattan:  Take the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.  When you come out of the tunnel, take the Hamilton Avenue Exit, and then bear left onto Hamilton Avenue.  Turn left onto Smith Street, right onto 9th St (cross the Gowanus Canal), left onto 2nd Avenue, and then right onto 7th St.   OR take the Manhattan Bridge onto Flatbush Avenue and follow directions below.

From points north:  Take the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), Route 278, West toward Brooklyn.  Take the Hamilton Avenue Exit exit- Exit 26- toward Battery Tunnel/Manhattan.  Turn left onto Hamilton Avenue.  Turn left onto Smith Street, right onto 9th St (cross the Gowanus Canal), left onto 2nd Avenue, and then right onto 7th St.    OR Exit the BQE earlier at the Tillary Street Exit.  When you get off the exit ramp, stay in the 2 left lanes.  At the second light turn left onto Flatbush Avenue.  Turn right onto 3rd Avenue, stay on for about a mile, then right onto 8th St to 2nd Avenue.  Turn right onto 2nd and then right onto 7th Street.

From points south:  Take the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 278, East to the 38 ST exit- Exit 23. Turn right onto 4th Ave.  Turn right onto 39th St. Turn right onto 3rd Ave.  Turn left onto Hamilton Avenue, then right onto 2nd Avenue.  Turn right onto 7th Street.  

Click here to link to a 

Map of 168 7th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215-3147

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