STATEMENT
I am an artist working in paint, photography, and mixed media. My work contemplates religious, historic, and mythological women, personal histories (including my own), and the psychological undercurrents of contemporary society.
I especially love working on non-traditional surfaces, painting on burlap, stone, found objects, and cigar boxes. Recent projects use discarded slate from a former state-run (1885-1996) condemned psychiatric hospital. Now a hotspot for urbex explorers, it provides a wealth of unusual poignant pieces of history on which to paint. The added symbolism using a piece of broken shelter from an insane asylum seems appropriate for our times.
Since 2016 I have organized and participated in several exhibits with social justice themes, with an upcoming show at the Arc Gallery in Chicago, protesting the attack on women’s rights in America.
Additionally, because surviving as a female artist is nearly impossible in a world that barely recognizes the work of women, I have a successful parallel administrative career, now on a freelance basis. My background includes office administration, database management and event planning. I have experience in corporate travel, hospitality, sales promotion, marketing, purchasing, law, banking and non-profit.
I have a creative, practical, common-sense approach to all aspects of these ventures and often find artist inspiration in my encounters with corporate America which has made an appearance in paint on and off for years.
Art Advocacy Projects:
| 2018-present | Fat Canary Journal – Founding Editor of the Fat Canary Journal an artist run, fine art journal and virtual gallery, celebrating the work of contemporary and emerging artists on a monthly virtual platform and in an annual print publication. |
| 2018-2020 | Artists for Social Justice 2020 – Curator of social justice collaborative for social justice themed project. Efforts includes online exhibits, website design, drafting promotional and managing all aspects for gallery exhibits across the United States. The traveling exhibit will journey virtually from New York to the heartland of America. It is featured virtually in the Social Distancing Festival and other venues throughout the year. |
| 2017 | Gambling the Aisle – Art Editor for this bi-annual, Denver art and literary journal |
| 2010-Present | Open Road Creations – Pro bono design services for artists, art organizations and non-profit entities including web design, virtual exhibits, marketing material, promotional brochures, and advertising. |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2019 | #brokenwomenmendstronger, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL – |
| 2016 | Wake of the Dutchman, Alfred van Loen Gallery, Huntington, NY |
| 2012 | Gamulets spirits and everyday humans, National Association of Women Artists, NYC |
| 2010 | Life in Crab Meadow, Spoke, Huntington NY |
| 1996 | Crustaceans and Older Influences, HLW Gallery, NYC |
Select Juried and Pop-up Exhibitions
| 2022 | Ancestral Intersections, New Hope Arts Legacy, New Hope, PA |
| 2021 | Welcome Back NY, Maggi Peyton Gallery Anniversary Exhibit at Citti di Assisi with Arte Studio Ginestrelle Memorial. Monument. Movement. Exhibition, Artists Against Racism, New Jersey Up Arts Incubator, Alone/Together, Lansdale, PA |
| 2020 | Political Discord, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna, CA About What’s Going On, virtual exhibit, Hopkinton Center for the Arts, |
| 2018 | Small Work Exhibit,Baruch College, CUNY, NY Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY Spoke, Huntington NY |
| 2017 | ARTOUR-O IIMUST, Madeira, Portugal Wake of the Dutchman Solo, Northport Art Coalition, Northport, NY Wake of the Dutchman, Pop Up Exhibit, Scherer & Sons, Crab Meadow, NY Juried Exhibit, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI |
| 2016 | Out of the Woods, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA Eighty Miles a Day, 1st Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennial, Northport, NY |
| 2013-2015 | International Contemporary Art Exhibit at Citta Di Assisi, Italy |
| 2014 | Community of Artists, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Point Park University, Visions and Revelations, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2013 | New England Biennial, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Long Island Museum; Let’s Go to the Beach National Association of Women Artists, Clothing Optional Spoke Gallery, Artists Choice, Huntington, NY |
| 2012 | Long Island Museum, Natural Wonder |
| 2011 | Las Femmes Artistes Vernissage at the Armory Center, FL Riverside Public Library, NAWA’s Ev(e)olution, NYC |
Curated Exhibits
| 2020 | Artists for Social Justice 2022, Kupferberg Gallery, Queens College CUNY, NYC Artists for Social Justice 2020, ARC Gallery, Chicago Social Distancing Festival, Toronto, Canada |
Select Group Exhibits
Summer Festival, Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, NY – July 2010
| 2010-2019 | National Association of Women Artists Annual Member Exhibits |
| 2013 | Landfill Art Project, Wilkes-Barre, PA |
| 2012 | Annual Member Exhibit, Mill Pond House, Smithtown, NY |
| 2011 | Familiar Weight of Water, a Mallon Family Exhibit, Spoke, Huntington NY |
| 2010 | Huntington/Oyster Bay Audubon Society/Cow Harbor Festival, Northport, NY Summer Festival, Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, NY |
Publications
| 2020 | Calyx Journal, Cover Art, |
| 2018 | Fat Canary Journal – July Mystic Blue Review – January |
| 2017 | The Woven Tale Press, June 2017 The Island Review Gambling the Aisle Literary Magazine, Temenos Journal, Central Michigan University, 2016 and 2017 Annual Member Exhibit, Mill Pond House, Smithtown, NY |
| Multi year | Temenos Journal, Central Michigan University, 2016 and 2017 Calyx Journal, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 The Tulane Review, Tulane University, 2015 The Journal, Ohio State University, 2015 Noctua Review Art and Literary Magazine, Southern CT State University, 2014-2017 Noctua Review Art and Literary Magazine – cover art 2015 and 2017 |
| 2014 | Glassworks Literary Magazine, Rowan University, Spring |
| 2013 | Tendril Literary Magazine,Winter |
| 2012 | The Colored Lens, Summer |
Education
| 1975-1985 | Forest Park School of Art, Woodhaven, NY – with Indian Space artist Robert Barrell |
| 1985 | Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing New York BA – Fine Art |
| 2013-2015 | Art Residency at Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy |
| 1980- 1985 | Instructor, Children’s Art Class, Forest Park School of Art, Woodhaven, NY |
| 1983 | Archeological Dig in Poitier, France 1983 and |
| 1981 | Archeological Dig in Forcalqueiret, France 1981 |