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Golfer Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 30" x 40"	Pool III Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 32" x 32"	Terminal Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 30" x 30"
Iceberg Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 30" x 40"	Theater II Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 30" x 40"	Porch Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 40" x 30"
Diver Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 30" x 20"	Condo Acrylic, Oil on Canvas 30" x 40"

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The subjects I paint are unremarkable - utilitarian structures, non- descript buildings and interiors, landscapes and seascapes - ubiquitous in our experience and imagination. But I try to reveal them as singular, strange as well as familiar, disturbing as well as commonplace.

Though the images appear "realistic," they are simplified and abstract archetypes.Architectural forms are symmetrically arranged. Color is mostly monochromatic; light, tone, and shadow vary with time of day and place. Often, there is a sense of foreboding. Where the human figure appears, it is isolated and anonymous, persevering in an indifferent universe.

My paintings are metaphors for my particular view of reality: We exist in an orderly and perfect universe, but one, it would seem, to which we are entirely incidental. Its meaning, if there is any, will continue to elude us.


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Selected Exhibitions

By Westchester Women. Northern Westchester Center for the Arts Fantasy Art. Pace University. Pleasantville, NY City/Country: A Multi-Media Art Exhibition. Park Avenue Atrium, New York, NY View from Olana: A Survey of Contemporary Landscape Art. Greene County Council on the Arts. Catskill, NY Conversations Between Cultures. Reader's Digest Association and Westchester Arts Council. Chappaqua, NY Neighbors: Artists of Westchester and Southern Connecticut. Curated by S. R. Balka and Lehman College Art Gallery, NY The Natural Perception. The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, NY Selected Katonah Museum of Art Member Artists. Bridge Gallery, White Plains, NY Nature - Fact and Fantasy. Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY Interiors/Exteriors. Marymount Manhattan Gallery, NYC Solo Show. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Annual Juried Exhibition. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, NY Summer Annual. Gallery Henoch, NY Hudson River Update. The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, NY Architectural Images in Contemporary Painting. Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ Members' Gallery Annual. Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY New Talent. A.M. Sachs Gallery, NYC Collectors' Exhibition. McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX Spring Show. Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC Solo Show. Phoenix Gallery, NYC Solo Show. Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY Other juried and invitational shows include: Katonah Museum of Art, Phoenix Gallery, Hudson River Contemporary Artists, Sarah Lawrence College, Silvermine Guild, Westchester Art Society, Mamaroneck Artists' Guild, National Association of Women Artists, University of Wisconsin

Awards

Top Award for Painting, 24th New England Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Prize (oils), National Association of Women Artists Hudson River Contemporary Artists Award for Painting

Collections

Museums: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Yad Vashem (National Museum of Israel), Jerusalem Corporations: Hoffman-LaRoche, Nutley, NJ Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, NYC Institute for Strategy Development, Washington, DC

Education And Training

National Academy of Design. Art Students League. M.A., University of Wisconsin. B.A., magna cum laude, Brooklyn College.

Partial Bibliography

The New York Times, November 19, 1995; October 11, 1992; October 13, 1991; September 25, 1983; November 28, 1983 Artspeak, Summer 1987; December 20, 1979 Architectural Images in Contemporary Painting, Summit Art Center,1982 The New Yorker, December 24, 1979 Arts Magazine, January 1979 New York Arts Journal, November-December 1978 Bridgeport Post, June 23, 1973. Who's Who in American Art.