B.F.A. 1963
Painting is about seeing. And that's not easy. To see what you've done, to be able to actually see other work takes a lifetime. Seeing changes -- what I thought was very good last year might not look that good to me now. And when I put something away for six months and then take it out I'm a bit nervous at first. Will it hold up? Of course, it's even worse when it's your own work, because you are so subjectively wrapped up in it. It's everyone and everything you know up until that moment.
Here's what Nietzsche had to say about seeing:
"To learn to see -- accustom the eye to composure, to patience, to letting things come to it; to put off judgment, to learn to walk around all sides of the individual case, and comprehend it from all sides. That is the preliminary schooling in spiritually."
My paintings are primarily about color, differences, amounts; the way colors play off each other. I attempt to create color worlds, which are without words, silent. My work continues the tradition of painting about color from the artists I love best -- Manet, Mondrian, Rothko and Newman. Paint is after all liquid color.
education
- 1964-68 Hunter College, M.A.
- 1963-64 Art Students League
- 1959-63 Cornell University, B.F.A.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2006 "Color Painting," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006 "Les Vitraux," The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
- 2005 "New Monotypes," Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 "Les Vitraux," Galerie Gerald Piltzer: Compagne, Barbizon, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2005 "Riverhouse Editions, Master Prints by 44 Artists," Art Gallery, University of Colorado at Denver
- 2005 American Embassy, Sarajevo, Bosnia
- 2004 "The Art of the Definite," curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, NY
- 2004 "A Selection of Outstanding Contemporary Prints and Posters," the Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
- 2004 "Lincoln Center Prints," Duke University, Durham, NC
- 2001 American Academy of Arts & Letters Ceremonial Exhibition of Prize Winners, New York, NY
Selected Public Collections
- Art Bank Program Collection, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selected Honors and Awards
- 2004 "Great Women of the 21st Century," American Biographical Institute
- 2003 "Two Thousand Notable American Women," 10th Commemorative Edition, American Biographical Institute
- 2000 Krasner-Pollock Foundation Grant
- 1999 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant
- 1999 Jerome Foundation, "Dark Love"
- 1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, "Dark Love"
- 1999 New York State Council on the Arts, "Dark Love"
Special Projects
- 2004 Poster for Lincoln Center List Prints and Editions, "Key Board Variation"
- 1999 Set Designer, Custody, a play by Sandra Hochman
Teaching
- 1997 Visiting Artist, Chautaugua Institution
- 1994-95 Guest Lecturer, New York University
- 1990 Instructor, Parsons School of Design
- 1983-2002 Associate Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
- 1982-83 Instructor, Parsons School of Design
- 1980-81 Instructor, SUNY Purchase
- 1974 Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute
- 1972-73 Instructor, Hunter College
- 1968-69 Instructor, Farleigh Dickinson University
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