Category: About My Art
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Front Cover Feature – Philadelphia Stories
I am honored to have my artwork featured on the cover of Philadelphia Stories for the Fall 2022 edition. My piece Celestial Vortex is also featured with an article on page 5. Read the full issue here.
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Healing Power of Art Award
I am pleased to have been selected to receive a Special Recognition Art Award from “The Healing Power of ART: Resilience 2022” exhibition. Following are excerpts from the article by curator Renee Phillips: “As the curator of the exhibition, I was immediately impressed by the artists’ use of innovation and talent to create multi-faceted art that is…
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Figurative Leanings: Installment 9
When my son was in nursery school I decided to go back to school toward a Masters in Family Therapy at what was then Hahnemann University. I was always a student of family dynamics and even though events in my own family precluded completion of the degree, the experience helped me sort through some of…
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The Next Stage: Installment 8
From the beginning I have always been awed by theater spaces. During elementary school assemblies I would stare at the layers of velvet curtains on the stage of that theater which doubled as a gymnasium when no performance was scheduled. Early trips to NY theaters and especially a trip to see The Flying Dutchman at…
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Connecting Dots: Installment 7
RELATIONAL PROPERTY: a property that depends on a thing’s relationship to other things. While taking philosophy at Rice, I was intrigued with the concept of relational properties, and later used it in my thesis to describe what I created for my MFA show. In 1983 I was ready to take the images which I thought…
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Fully Cooked: Installment #6
Through the years my paintings have been ‘fully cooked’ entities. Under-paintings (painted sketches) are sometimes spontaneously loose so I know I could work that way if I wished – but no…I am not done until there is nowhere else to go. A frequent remark I hear is – ‘It must take you forever to do…
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Installment Five: Draping Abstract Space
Texture, color, light, shadow, depth, food for thought: Mix all these ingredients into the stew and maybe the outcome is an overcooked mash. Or maybe there are enough options from which anyone can choose, to which one might relate. Maybe still, a synergistic union is created, transporting the viewer somewhere other. Using the color combination…
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Approaching The Center – Installment 4
My masters thesis exhibit was called Approaching The Center. Each large canvas was entitled Center Space Variation and numbered. The average size was 5’ X 6’ On my committee were two abstract painters and a philosopher specializing in Aesthetics. The written part discussed how an intricate piece of music is able to send a listener…
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Kitsch or Quiche? (third installment)
The atmosphere of UMASS’ MFA program took some getting used to. In a school of 25,000 students there were only five painting candidates admitted per year. At 21 I was the youngest, and one of two awarded a full ride in the form of a teaching associateship. My ego soared as I taught drawing and…
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Still The Beginning (second installment)
At Rice my interests outside of art were developing. Among them were classical music and philosophy. I also had wonderful art history classes, and during these lectures I became fascinated with the thick, gloppy paint areas of the impressionists, the precise color theory, layering and order of the pointillists, the boundless imaginings of the surrealists,…