Occupation: Painter, Public Artist Media: Painting, Sculpture.
Education Art Students League, New York.
Business and Professional Positions Selection Committee, Arts for Transit, New York; Judge, various art orgns & colls in New York, including Salmagundi Center America Art & Lehman Coll Art Div.
Commissioned Works Faceted Glass (400 sq ft), City of New York Permanent Subway Art, Arts for Transit, 2005; Mosaic Mural (264 sq ft), City of Irving Permanent Art, Irving Arts Center, Libr & Human Servs Bldg Entrance, Texas, 2006; Mural Painted Scroll (4'x15'), Maimonides Hosp, Cancer Treatment Center, Entrance, New York, 2006.
Public Works Arts for Transit (division MTA), New York; New York Public Library, New York; Art Students League, New York; ASPCA, New York & Florida; SWIFT Corp, New York; Amity Art Found; Trenton City Mus, New Jersey.
Exhibitions Butler Mus America Art, 2001; Exhib of Int Art of the Fan (traveling, Seoul, Korea), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan, 2003; Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, 2003; Along the Way, MTA Arts for Transit 20 yr Retrospective Exhib, Paine Webber UBS Gallery, New York, 2005; The League Then & Now, Gallery Salute to the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League New York, 2005 ; Lehman Coll MTA Arts for Transit Exhib, New York, 2006; Susan K Black Found Nat (traveling), 2006-2007; Trenton City Mus Exhib, New Jersey, 2007; New York City Invitational Exhib, Allied Artists America, Bennington Center Arts, Vermont, 2007.
Bibliography Vera Haler (author), 100 Years of the Subway, Newsday New York.com (video interview with artist), New York, 10/2004; Celia McGee (author), Sunday Now, Carving Out a Niche, Daily News NYC, 10/30/2005; The Times Trenton, Metro Section, Detour to Fame, 2007; and others including, The New York Times, Daily News, Washington Post, New York Post, Int Artist, The Artists Mag & Voice of America.
Publications Looking Beyond, A Constant Process, Int Artists Publ, 2004; author, The Source of Life, Watercolor Magic Mag, 8/2005; The Portraits of Life, Pastel J Mag, 12/2006; Pure Color: The Best of Pastel, North Light, 2006; contributor, Linea Art Jour, winter, 2003 & summer, 2004; interviews in Newsday, 2004, Daily News, 2005, WatercolorMagic Mag, 2005 & The Pastel Jour Mag, 2006.
Honors and Awards America Soc Portrait Artists, New York, 2002; Top Placing, Portrait Div, Artist Mag Competition, 2002; Dianne Bernhard Silver Medal Award; Dr Clifford Wheeler Wells Pastel Award; Gold Medal Hon, Audubon Artists of America, 2004; Pastel Journal Award, Pastel Soc America Annual Exhibition, 2006; and others.
Memberships Allied Artists of America; Salmagundi Club; Pastel Soc America (signature member); Nat Watercolor Soc (signature member); America Soc Portrait Artists (signature member); Audubon Artists America; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club; Transparent Watercolor Soc America (signature member).
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