Faculty Profile

For me the original impetus for making a picture is the suggestion of the erotic I find in natural forms. This practice examines the female form, both natural and constructed, as sites of social and cultural meaning. The work is an exploration of my histories as woman and body. It probes the intersection of the sexual and spiritual while engendering new meaning through the assembly and juxtaposition of cultural symbols.

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To teach fine arts and the creative process is to excite, inspire, and empower the student to understand and believe she has the ability and resources both intellectual and technical to produce a visual statement . . . At once coherent and creative and quite possibly individual and original.

• 1977: One year study with John Hedjuk, Cooper Union, New York, NY

• 1970: M.F.A., Photography and Printmaking, Ohio University, Athens, OH

• 1966: B.A., Fine Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

• 1965: Study Abroad, University of Siena, Siena Italy
  

• 1980 - present: Professor of Art/Photography, Cornell University

• 1993 - 1996: Chair, Department of Art, Cornell University

• 1978-1980: Assistant Professor of Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

• 1976-1980: Assistant Professor of Photography, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

• 1975-1977 (Summers): Resident Instructor, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, MA

• 1972-1974: Instructor in Photography, Drawing; Foundations Coordinator: Program for Certification for Art Education, Webster College, St. Louis, MO

• 1970-1972: Instructor: Photography, Printmaking, Drawing, Design; also designed and established a photography program, Florissant Valley Community College, St, Louis, MO
  

• All levels of photography
  

• Visual Feminist Theory

My artistic practice questions how one comes to know and interpret oneself and on what basis visual representations are constructed. To do this I draw on the visual and historic traditions/remnants of past cultures. I am fascinated by the use of and reuse of symbol and artifact, of ideology and convention, from one civilization to the next.

Solo

• 2007: "Symbolic Formation/Myth into Symbol," Must Be Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing, China

• 2001: "Landscape: Myth/Monument/Metaphor," Hartell Gallery, Cornell University

• 2001: "Recent Work," Central New York Arts Council, Utica, NY

• 1993: "Grafica Di Via Sette Dolori," Circolo La Scalietta, Matera, Italy

• 1992: Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy

• 1991: "And I Walk on a Loose Rope to the End of My Dream," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

• 1989: "Recent Work," John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University

• 1985: Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, NY

• 1983: The Gallery, Vinalhaven, ME

• 1980: "Self Portraits/Landscapes," Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

• 1975: Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME

• 1972: "Color Photographs," 13 x 15 Gallery, St. Louis, MO

• 1970: University of Maine, Augusta, ME

Group

• 2007: "Objects of Thought: Art from Cornell," Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• 2006, 1984: Syracuse Biennial, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

• 2006-1980: Faculty Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

• 2005: "Inclinations, Contemporary Photographic Art," The George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY

• 2004: Showcase of Faculty Art, Banfi's, Cornell University

• 2002: "Source: OU Alumni Artists," Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH

• 1995: "Camera Invisible," Temple Gallery, Temple University, Rome, Italy

• 1994: "Strictly Color: A Photographic Exhibition," Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

• 1993: "Natural Instincts," Arnot Art Museum, Ellmira, NY

• 1991: "Maine as Subject," The Fog Gallery, Vinalhaven, ME

• 1989: "From Abbot to Zickl: A Celebration of 150 Years of Photography," Parsons Exhibition Center, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

• 1989: "New Acquisitions/New York/New Directions: 1981-1989," International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

• 1987: "Commitment to Vision," Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (Traveled)

• 1987: March Open Invitational, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

• 1986: National '86 Small Works Exhibition, SCAC, Cobleskill, NY

• 1986: Photography Exhibition, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

• 1985, 1984: Rochester/Finger Lakes Exhibit, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

• 1984: "Point Lobos: Place as Icon," The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

• 1980: "New Landscapes II," The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

• 1979: "Translations: Photographic Images with New Forms," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

• 1977: "New York State Women Photographers," New York State Museum, Albany, NY

• 1977: Exhibit for the Floating Foundation of Photography, The Witkn Gallery, New York, NY

• 1976: "Photo/Synthesis," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

• 1975: "Breadth of Vision: Portfolios of Women Photographers," Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY