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Oil, acryllic, gouache, graphite
Truro has great meaning in my work. I always have the way Truro is, in light and where the land meets the sea, the beautiful dunes, the sunsets, with me, wherever I am. In my work I use this although not in a realistic way, but as it comes through me to the canvas or to the paper. For example, I use the pokeberry color often and it is part of Truro to me. A lot of my work is in glazes of color. That alludes to the shimmering qualities of the light and the color we have here.
In shows I have had in Provincetown, for example, the Boston Globe reviewer called the work "shimmering abstracts." I could not have said it better. In 1978 I finally came to the cape and had a fellowship at the Provincetown workshop with Leo Manso and Victor Candell. This was the last summer these two artist-teachers ran the workshop and I was tremendously lucky to have had the experience. Thereafter I did graduate work in the art department of Hunter College of CUNY, in New York City. I had been in high school in New York at the H.S. of Music & Art and thereafter got my degree in art and art history at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, and did a lot of graphics and ceramics at Michigan State University in E.Lansing in an undergraduate year.
A very meaningful fellowship I had was with the Scottish Arts Council in 1979 which was about seeing standing stones along the English Channel, in England and France, while travelling with a group of people associated with art in several manifestations in a square rigger. This was run by Richard Demarco of Edinburgh, Scotland. I have shown work at the Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh and in St.Ives, England and have shown my work in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Education: H.S. of Music&Art in New York, NY; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, art and art history,degree from the art department, fellowship in graphics with William Sessler; Michigan State University, courses in ceramics and graphics, fellowship from art department; graduate work in art and art history.
Honors: travelling fellowship from Scottish Arts Council; NY State Regents' Scholarship, Provincetown Workshop fellowship.
Exhibitions: University of Wisconsin Everson Center, Ball State College in Muncie, Indiana; Matrix Gallery in Provincetown, Mass., 1993&1994, juried show group inclusion in PAAM
Work in private collections: in Israel, (Histadrut), Jerusalem, Zichron Ya'akov, Delaware, Wisconsin, Syracuse,NY; New York City, Truro, Mass.
Have worked and lived in Truro since 1982.