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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 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.
I'm
a member of 440 Gallery in Park Slope,
Brooklyn. You can always find samples of my work there!
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NY
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Born:
Manhattan, New York
Solo
and 2-person Exhibitions
Being
There (with Mary Connelly), Callahan Center Gallery, St Francis College,
Brooklyn, NY, 2011
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
Summer
in the City,
Purume Gallery, NYC, 2011
Landscape Re-Imagined, Purume Gallery, NYC, 2011
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,
440 Gallery,
Brooklyn, 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
As seen in
The New York Times, Saturday, June 7, 2003:
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Representational oil
paintings made in Brooklyn without irony