Artist's Statement

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My work centers on memory, dreams and personal history coupled with a love of the quiet elegance found in nature: it's poetic form, perfect symmetry, color that speaks and endless mystery.

 

From my earliest days photographing in 1979, I felt the need to refine the original ‘drawing with light’ by adding something of my own to what I saw through my lens, often giving the final B&W print a surreal quality.  For many years, I did this by hand coloring my silver prints and largely showed this work.

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I wear leg braces due to an injury which limits how long I can walk.  A telephoto gives me the ability to walk with my lens.  One can imagine my excitement when I was exposed to the apps developed through mobile photography.  Here I was afforded a whole pallet, a whole new set of tools for image making.  My current work is made by photographing with a DSLR and then importing the image into my iPad for interpretation.

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

1981 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Grant —Photography

1981 Purchase Award —Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission

1979 First Place Award in Photography — Morristown Art Festival

1978 Morristown Art Festival —award for “Most Consistent High Quality Work in Show”

 

ONE PERSON SHOWS

9/10 “In No One Direction”—Small World, Princeton, NJ

3/93 "Recollections"—Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ

9/92 "Fragments"—4th Street Gallery, NYC, NY

3/81  "Hand Colored Work" Nassau St. Gallery, Princeton, NJ

2/80 4th Street Gallery, NYC

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GROUP SHOWS

7/10 “Now & Then”, Loft Gallery, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY

9/03...Gallery 14, Hopewell, NJ

10/83...2 person “Handworked Photographs"—Mercer County College, NJ

6/83...NJSCA ’81-’82 Fellowship Show”—Jersey City Museum, NJ

10/82...2 person—Simon Gallery, Montclair, NJ

5/82...River Center of the Arts (juried), New Hope, PA

1/82...The Woodman Gallery, Morristown, NJ

10/81...Trenton State College, NJ—juried, purchase award

4/81...Princeton University, McCormick Hall

2/81...“Six Women Photographers” —The Woodman Gallery, Morristown, NJ

1/81...NJ 3rd Biennial Exhibition of NJ Artists—The Newark Museum, NJ

12/80...“5th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition”—Princeton Art Association, NJ

8/80...The Woodman Gallery, Morristown, NJ

2/80...P.S. 122, NYC, NY

9/79...Gracie Square Juried Art Show, NYC, NY

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

1983 Simon Gallery —speaker at “A Symposium: The Aesthetics of ContemporaryPhotography”

1982 Channel 13—two prints aired in 30-second spot on N.J. fine art photographers

1980 International Center of Photography, NYC: talk on my hand-coloring process

1980 Olden Photography, NYC: demonstration of printing interpretation hand-coloring

1979 Granted a working scholarship to the International Center of Photography, NYC 

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EDUCATION

I am largely self taught with a few photography courses with Patt Blue and Via Wynroth at ICP in NYC and at the New School with George Tice.  In 1972, I received a B.A. in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and was later granted a master's teaching fellowship at Duke University in their existential phenomenology psychology program..

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