I hold an AB in Art History and a MA in English Literature. I resided as artist in residence at the Smithsonian Museum from Oct. 1999 to November 2001.

I studied under the instruction of such outstanding artists as Silya Kiese. Over the years I’ve gained recognition for my work from prominent curators, including Barbara Millstein from the Brooklyn museum of art, exhibited at the National Gallery in D.C. and at galleries and Artist venues in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Italy, London and Spain. I exhibited continually since 1999. (See my exhibitions summary at the end of the page) I can be contacted at maker.of.art@hotmail.com Visit me at foru.etsy.com & Artist Space Artist File: Please login at : www.afonline.artistsspace.org/preview_artist.php?aid=5360

Please visit my galleries separately in the Select Member's Personal Gallery box The Floral Art Gallery for interior design, 26 New York Bathrooms Gallery is a display of small photo sculptures (conceptual art) and More.

Artist Statements About Work In My Galleries

The Floral Art Gallery

The construction of my art begins by painting each image (with water color or oil ink) on heavy watercolor paper, (some in pointillism with an accumulation of thousands of tiny dots), cut them out and then collage the pieces, (so to give them a since of play and plasticity), photograph them and then make acid-free prints. The step of photographing creates a sensation that the images occupy an extended space beyond the picture plain. The simplicity of the collages, which give equal importance to the negative space, results in a quiet meditative quality. The goal is to break the viewer away from the restrictions of time and space bringing one to a poetic shift of peace and serenity. Because of the meditative quality of the collages, some works found homes in such places as St. Vincent’s Hospital, NYC, NY and the Elizabeth Seaton Shrine in lower Manhattan. It is my wish that you will gain the same poetic feeling from one of my collages.

26 New York Bathrooms Gallery

26 New York Bathrooms, (5,6,7) inspired by Peter Greenaway’s Documentary film 26 Bathrooms, represents various bathrooms, both public and private, from New York City. As part of a photo-sculpture series, they redirect the high aesthetics of photography as an art form into a plaything. By fixing photographs within handling-objects as opposed to wall-bound frames, I create a personal, boundless relationship between viewer and object, not to mention a new format of porta potties. Ordinary plumbing is the medium for abstract designs. The grid construction of the boxes and the individual smaller boxes inside, which can be rearranged by the viewer, determine the composition of the photo sculptures. I used a black and white disposable camera and the standard snapshot, nothing fancy.

Whitney Cut-outs

The Whitney Cut-outs main ingredient is thrown away photos from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Take one photo, cut the subject out and add background. The cut pieces act like a negative and a positive force---they cannot connect; it makes no sense to force it; it doesn’t work anymore. Not as the old image, anyway. The aesthetic meaning of the original duplicated in the photograph changes and an entirely new hidden meaning emerges from the new work. I want people to rethink the value of authenticity, the original and the copy and be creative with it. The original means nothing for this work to mean anything.

Exhibitions