BIO

Although my roots are in NY, I am happy now to reside in Aiken, SC. I brought my art passion with me. My art works have been shared, both purchased and gifted, both in New York and now here in South Carolina.

EDUCATION
Graduated with a BFA in Studio Art and Digital Imaging from Long Island University/CW Post Campus.
Coursework in Drawing and Illustration at Parsons School of Design.
Coursework in Advertising Art & Design at SUNY Farmingdale, NY.
Past membership with ALLI  (Art League of Long Island), and Huntington Camera Club - Long Island NY.
Current membership with Aiken Artists Guild and Aiken Center for the Arts
Study of painting and figure drawing at USC Aiken. SC

JURIED EXHIBITS
Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC - 2009
ACA Retrospectives, Aiken, SC - 2008 & 2009
Art in Sixes DVAA Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY - 2008
Anderson Arts Center, Anderson, SC - 2008
Festival of Flowers, Greenwood, SC - 2007
BJ Spoke Gallery /Art League of Long Island members show Honorable Mention - 2002

OTHER EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition de Nus Artistiques, Aiken, SC - 2009
USC Aiken Etherredge Center Gallery, Aiken, SC , Solo Show - 2009
Open Gallery at Arndt's, Northport, NY - 2005
Alfred Van Loen Gallery, South Huntington Library - 2002

ARTIST'S STATEMENT
From the simplicity of stone and pebble to the complexity of animal and human forms, drawing has become a tool for my understanding of the world around me. I want to be an explorer, a detective, and a poet all at once. Through the use of the artist's materials, I search for form and meaning.
Paraphrasing an artist whose work has influenced me greatly, Rico Le Brun, one of our strongest longings is to return to the live center of the human image, and "... of all human efforts to be included in, drawing is perhaps one of the grandest and most real". I feel this most when I draw or paint human and animal forms.
Equestrian and other animal form influences also come to me from Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Frederick Remington, and Robert Bateman, and of course, the wonderful cave paintings of Lascaux.

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