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Statement
I have been an artist all of my life. I am
also an actor/singer and musical theater writer, which is why,
perhaps, I love the drama of color and line.
Sometimes I work in realistic, sometimes in semi-abstract
forms; but it has always been about the face and the figure, the
emotion and the form …… and color.
No matter how abstract, I always work from life.
Like the audience at a play, I immerse myself in the emotion of
the model and the pose. The result, on paper or canvas,
is my giddy applause.
Throughout the pandemic, in the absence of live
models I turned to botanicals. I even think these flowers,
when I painted them, felt me.
My work has been represented at The Manhattan Arts
and Antiques Center in NY, the Franklin Antiques Center in Nyack,
NY and the Helen Hayes Theater benefit auction in Nyack, NY.
I have had one-woman shows at The Turning Point Restaurant in
Piermont, NY; the Nyack Art Walk at Café Barcel; the Valley
Cottage Library and Nyack Library; and am included in many private
collections.
In 2012 and again in 2016 I won a residency at The
Art Students League, Vytlacil, NY campus.
December 2023 I was selected as one of 9 artists
out of 1800 applicants to win “The Next Originals” title,
awarding me representation in 6 of the Kessler Hotel’s “Grand
Bohemian Galleries,” and my award winning work was featured
on a billboard in Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
Spring 2024 I was the subject of a three page feature
in the premiere issue of “New Art Charleston Magazine.”
I am 82 years of age, and excited to say I
am still learning, evolving, and loving the creative process.
Bio
I have been an artist all of my life. In 2012 I
decided to make art my primary focus.
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June 2012
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Won full scholarship to the Art Students League
Residency Program, Vytlacil in Sparkhill, NY
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October 2012
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Featured Artist Café Barcel, Nyack,
NYc
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October 2012
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Juried into Flywheel Gallery’s show “Attitude”
-- Piermont-NY
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October 2012
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One of three winners awarded a show at Flywheel
in December
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December 2012
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One of three artists awarded a Holiday Show
at Piermont, NY’s Flywheel Gallery
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February 2013
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Featured in Nyack News and Views online Local
Arts Index
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March 2013
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Featured Artist: Nyack Library, Nyack, NY
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May 2013
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Featured artist, Edward Hopper House Museum,
Nyack NY
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May 2013
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Solo show: Bergan County Players Theater, Oradel, NJ
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July 2013
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Solo shows beginning July 2013: Nyack Art
Collective’s “First Friday” in various
venues, including The Chocolaterie; Saffron Trading
Company; Maria Louisa; The Franklin Antique Center
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October 2013
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Represented: silent auction for benefit of
Penguin Theater, Stony Point, NY
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October 2013
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Represented: GAGA Art Center, Garnerville,
NY “Re-imagine Garner”
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October 2013
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Juried into the EstroGenius Festival in Manhattan
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November 2013
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Solo show: Artist of the Month; JohnnyCakes,
Nyack, NY
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March 2014
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Solo show: Featured Artist: The Art Café, Nyack,
N.Y.
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March 2014
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Live Painting: Selected to paint 3’x 4’
canvas LIVE during performance Of Eve Ensler’s
play “The Good Body” at the 4th Universalist Church,
NYC. The painting was auctioned for charity.
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May 2014
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Solo Artist, Producer’s Club, NYC
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2014-2020
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Created "My Own Little Gallery,” an art gallery
at the Franklin Antiques Center, Nyack, NY, where I
curated local artists’ shows and exhibited my own
work. Gallery closed at start of the pandemic.
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May 2022
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Featured artist: Rockland Arts Festival
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June 2022
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Represented: Beast With a Million Eyes Gallery, Nyack,
NY
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Represented: Gene Reed Gallery, Nyack, NY
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Represented: Nyack Antique Masters, Nyack, NY
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Nyack Art Collective group-shows both in person and virtual,
Nyack, NY
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Dec. 2022-
To present
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Winner Kessler Hotel’s: “The Next Originals”
award: one of 9 artists selected, out of 1800, to have
my art on a billboard in Times Square and representation
in each of the Kessler Hotels’ Grand Bohemian Galleries.
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Sept 2023
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Granted a residency at the Kessler Grand Bohemian
Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina where I demonstrated
my process, painting live and connecting with visitors to
the gallery.
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May 2024
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Featured in a three-page article in the premiere issue
of New Art Charleston Magazine
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2019-Present
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Represented: in Nyack Art Collective’s “First
Friday” gallery art shows in Nyack, NY
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May 2025
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Represented: Perry Lawson Gallery, Nyack, NY
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June 2025
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Penguin Rep Theater Stony Point, NY Anniversary Gala. Painted
a leaf-shaped Artists palette auctioned at the event
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July 2025
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Edward Hopper Museum's Palette Project: Painted figural piece
on a palette shaped like Hopper’s old wooden palette,
sold for auction at the Anniversary tribute
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