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Artist's Statement
Statement of Work
For 30+ years I have been an oil painter of the urban landscape. The older buildings and side streets of New York hold a special fascination for me as I try to capture the texture, detail and especially the light of the city. My work documents what is so familiar that you can walk by without noticing it, and yet tomorrow it may be gone.
I am a realist painter who sees the soul of the city through time. Time changes buildings, casting shadows at different hours of the day, turning concrete brick, stone and wood into patterned abstraction—if you are looking. I am intrigued by reflections, by the paradox of seemingly fixed materials in transition, depending on the sky, the sun, the moment.
As an artist, I am in love with the city’s dynamism. I record the architecture of the city not to suspend it in an amber of nostalgia but because to me history is animate, alive in these constructions, which represent an abstract order, a symmetry of dailiness.
My work is in the tradition of such painters as Hopper. As he told the story of time through the buildings of a small town, so I narrate the city of New York, each building, window and architectural ornament telling its unique tale. My passion for our architecture has only deepened, as we have all come to realize how much the buildings of this extraordinary city are alive in our collective imagination.
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EDUCATION:
1973, B.A. cum laude, Adelphi University, New York; 1968-1977; Art Students League, NYC
SOLO SHOWS:
Durst Organization, Lobby Gallery, New York, NY, 2009
Art-O-Mat, Long Island City, NY, 2008, 2006
The Creative Center, New York, NY, 2007
Ansonia Windows, New York, 2008, 2006, 2003
Noho Gallery, New York, NY, 2005, 2003, 1991, 1989, 1986, 1985, 1983, 1982
Franklin 54 Gallery, New York, 2004
Treasure Room Gallery, The Interchurch Center, New York, NY, 2002
The Wall Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, 2002
MMC Gallery, New York, NY (2-person show), 1999
Unibank Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1995
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Museum of the City of New York, NY
New York Transit Museum, NY
The Queens Museum, NY
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Hudson Waterfront Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Poughkeepsie Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
The Bronx Museum satellite gallery at Krasdale Foods, Inc., Bronx, NY
Pen and Brush Club, NY
Fraser Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Arts Club, NY
Art Students League of New York, NY
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Flushing, NY
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Michael Ingbar Gallery, NY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, So. Utah University, Cedar City, UT
J. Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA
Washington Square East Galleries, NY
MEDIA/PUBLICATIONS:
“Woodhaven Native Captures L.I.C. On Canvas”, Queens Chronicle, July 31, 2008
The Richeson 75 International Landscape & Exteriors 2007, pp. 17, 18, 102
“Unforgettable Places to Create, Artist’s Sketchbook Magazine. April, 2006, p. 18-19 (illus. “Angels”)
“Culturally Speaking,” The Art Times Journal, November, 2005 (photo)
“Point of View,” Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, NY, Friday, April 16, 2004, (illus. “G.E. Reflections)
“LIC Artists Lift Veil At Open House,” New York Daily News, NY, October 13, 1989, p.XQ10 (photo)
“Queens Show of Plenty,” Newsday, NY, March 23, 1984, Part II/19 (photo)
“New York Through Artists Eyes,” The New York Times, NY, October 14, 1983
Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in American Women
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
BIO, Biotechnology Organization, Washington, D.C.; Burson-Marsteller, NY; Capital Re, NY; Carter-Wallace, NY; Citizens Utilities, Stamford, CT; Guy Carpenter and Company, NY; Credit Local de France, NY; Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, NY; Headway Corporation, NY; J&W Seligman, Co., Inc., NY; Jay Alit & Associates/Questor Management Company, NY; Media Masters, NY; Museum of the City of New York, NY; OSI Parmaceuticals, Inc., NY; Public Service Company of North Carolina, Inc., NC; Risch-Darlington, NY; Roper Starch, Inc., NY; Trizec Hahn Office Properties, Inc., NY; Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ; Zyloware Corporation, NY
AWARDS:
CLWAC, New York, NY, Annual Exhibit – 1998, 2000, 2004, 2005
NAWA, New York, NY, Annual Exhibit – 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000 (Medal of Honor), 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009
The American Artists Professional League, New York, NY, 2007; Pen and Brush Club, New York, NY, 2002
Allied Artists of America, NY, 2007; Georgetown International Art Competition, The Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, 2001
Cedar City Annual Art Exhibition, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Cedar City, UT, 1998
Honorable Mention, 55th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1991