Occupation: Artist Media: Abstract - realism, expressionist. Born Plainfield, New Jersey, May 6, 1941.
Education Syracuse Univ, BA, 1963. Pennsylvania Acad Fine Arts, certification degree, 1994. China Nat Acad Fine Art, Hangzhou, 1994.
Teaching Positions Long Beach Island for the Arts & Sci, summer 2005.
Business and Professional Positions Fellow Coun member, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia, 2005-; advisor to the faculty, BFA program, Kean Col, Union, New Jersey, 1988-94; advisor artists coun member, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey, 1988-89; advisor board member, Coalition, Inginue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006-; advisor, Louise Nevelson Found, Artist Advisory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006.
Commissioned Works New Jersey Natural Gas, Wall, New Jersey, 1983 ; Bell Communications Res, Red Bank, New Jersey, 1985; Barbara & Leon Goldstein, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, 1985; Meldisco Corp, Mahwah, New Jersey, 1987; Temple Univ Sch Law, Phila, 2004; Newark Mus, New Jersey, 2005.
Public Works Fuller Member Art Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts; Independence Found, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; McGraw Hill Publishers, New York; New Jersey State Mus, Trenton, New Jersey; Pfizer Int, New York; Newark Mus, Newark, New Jersey; Sloan Kettering Hosp, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Temple Univ Sch Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Philip & Muriel Berman Mus Art, Ursinus Coll, Collegeville, Pennsylvania; Atlantic Richfield Chemical Corp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Prince Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Exhibitions New Jersey Designer Craftsmen, Newark Mus, New Jersey, 1973; New Jersey Artists Series, Reflections/Abstractions, New Jersey State Mus, Trenton, 1985; In Recognition of Excellence, Montclair Mus of Art, New Jersey, 1986; The Expressionist, Gesture Berman Mus Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, 1994; The Mus Restaurant, Philadelphia Mus of Art, Pennsylvania, 1999; Grounds for Sculpture, Toad Hall Gallery, Hamilton, New Jersey, 2003; 6th Biennial, AIR Gallery, New York, 2005; 66th Ann Juried Exhib, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006; Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, New Jersey, 2007; Gallery St Martin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007.
Bibliography Victoria Donohoe (author), The Expressionist Gesture, Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/26/2004; Janet Purcell (author), Allure of Orchids transforms potter to painter, The Times, Trenton, New Jersey, 8/1/2003; Eileen Watkins (author), Former Potter turns her talent to porcelain tile paintings, The Sunday Star Ledger, 2/19/1989.
Honors and Awards Fellow, New Jersey State Coun on the Arts, 1985; Blue Ribbon award, outstanding achievement, Long Branch Island Found for the Arts and Sciences, 1998-99; Fellow, Pennsylvania Coun on Arts, 2004; Prize and Jurors award, Newark Mus, Perkins Center Art, 2005.
