My work explores permanence and preservation, mood and memory. I am interested in the perceived value of things and how that value changes over time.
News articles keep cropping up about younger generations not wanting the objects that their parents cherished or saved. Many of my still life paintings include items that came from my father’s home after he passed away. He valued them enough to keep, do I feel the same way that he did about them? Can I capture an emotion that this item once evoked?
Likewise, so much vintage architecture is at risk from gentrification. Several of my streetscape paintings depict places that have since been destroyed.
Permanence is an illusion and painting is an act of preservation. I am amused by the irony that my painting of an object then becomes an object itself, to be thus considered by another generation.
I enjoy painting with oil because I feel the light reflects through it more vividly than other media, creating vibrant color and allowing me to build up layers of intensity that best create the sense of light and mood I want to convey. I work on birch and other rigid panels because I find the resistance of the surface facilitates more accurate brushwork.
Education
1986 B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Street Light, Selected Works Cambridge Boat Club, Cambridge MA
2021 street|seen, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead MA
2018 Modern Moonlight, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead MA
Exhibitions
2024 National Juried Show, Rockport Art Association, Rockport MA
2024 New England Regional Juried Exhibition, The Guild of Boston Artists,
Boston MA
2024 6th Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition, Workshop 13, Ware MA
2024 Academic Artists Assoc. 74th Annual Exhibition of Traditional Realism,
Arts Center East, Vernon CT
2024 Marblehead Festival of Arts, Marblehead MA
2023 Source of Light, Aplomb Contemporary Portrait Gallery, Dover NH
2023 Blue, Cambridge Arts Association, Cambridge MA
2023 5th Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition, Workshop 13, Ware MA
2023 Mary Shein Fall Salon, Cambridge Arts Association, Cambridge MA
2023 Becoming, Salem Arts Association, Salem MA
2023 SCNY 42nd Annual Open Painting, Sculpture & Graphics Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club, New York NY
2023 Academic Artists Assoc. 73nd Annual Exhibition of Traditional Realism,
Arts Center East, Vernon CT
2022 Mary Shein Fall Salon, Cambridge Arts Association, Cambridge MA
2022 Marblehead Festival of Arts, Marblehead MA
2022 Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 125th Open Juried Exhibition,
Salmagundi Club, New York NY
2022 Academic Artists Assoc. 72nd Annual Exhibition of Traditional Realism,
Arts Center East, Vernon CT
2022 Hudson Valley Art Assoc. 89th Annual Juried Exhibition, Old Lyme CT
2022 Winter Juried Show, Duxbury Arts Association, Duxbury MA
2021 Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition, Workshop 13, Ware MA
2021 Portrait, Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie NY
2021 Luminosity, Cape Cod Cultural Council, West Yarmouth MA
2020 Emergent Artists Exhibition, Cambridge Arts Association, Cambridge MA
2020 Dog Days of Summer, Porter Mill Studios, Beverly MA
2018 Lee Mansion Though Artist’s Eyes, Marblehead Museum, Marblehead MA
2017 Sketch Collective, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead MA
2017 Flip Flop, Newburyport Arts Association, Newburyport MA
2016 Marblehead Icons, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead MA
Awards
2024 People's Choice Award, 6th Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition
2023 First Place Oils, 5th Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition
2023 Honorable Mention, Becoming, Salem Arts Association, Salem MA
2022 Outstanding Work & People's Choice Award Marblehead Festival of Arts
Marblehead, MA
2022 Best In Show, Winter Juried Show, Duxbury Arts Association, Duxbury MA
2020 Juror’s Choice Award, 2020 Emergent Artists Exhibition,
Cambridge Arts Association, Cambridge MA
2016 People’s Choice Award, Marblehead Icons, Marblehead Arts Association
Exhibit Design, Guest Curator
2022 Growing Up in the Shipyard, Marblehead Museum, Marblehead MA
Recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant