Born 1958 Honolulu, Hawaii

EDUCATION

Connecticut College, New London, CT

Graduated B.A. 1980, Major in Studio Art

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Exploring the Visual Arts Program, Summer 1974

Swarthmore High School, Swarthmore, PA

Graduated 1976

EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

EVOKE Contemporary Gallery  

Decadence,  Santa Fe, NM, July 2011

1261 Gallery  

Group Show,  Denver, CO July, October, November, December 2011

Granary Gallery  

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2011

1261 Gallery  

Group Show,  Denver, CO October, December 2010

Granary Gallery  

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2010

Granary Gallery  

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2009

Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Contemporary American Reaslism: 2008 Biennial – Ft. Wayne IN, September 13 – November 2, 2008

Granary Gallery  

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2008

Jenkins Johnson Gallery 

Celebrating Summer, SF Gallery July -August 2007

Granary Gallery  

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2007

Jenkins Johnson Gallery   

Representation 2007  Work selected for both the NYC and SF Galleries June 2007

Granary Gallery  

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2006

Granary Gallery

Solo Show “The Teacup Series”, Martha’s Vineyard, MA December 2005

International Artist Magazine Competition

Finalist  “Garden Tea” Fall 2005

Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition 

Second Place Winner in Still Life ”Where There’s Smoke” August 2005

Finalist Still Life ”I’ll leave the light on”

Selected for publication in Annual Calendar ”Ill leave the light on”

Granary Gallery

Group Show,  Martha’s Vineyard, MA July 2005

The Butler Institute of American Art

69th Midyear Juried Exhibition, Youngstown, Ohio July – August 2005

Art of the State Juried Exhibition

State Museum of Pennsylvania June – September 2005

Women in the Arts

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio December 2004 – January 2005

Award for “The Folder”

Granary Gallery

Solo Show “The Teacup Series”, Martha’s Vineyard, MA December 2004

Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition

Finalist in Still Life ”Scandal” August 2004

Granary Gallery

Group Show, Martha’s Vineyard, MA  July 2004

Contemporary Realism: Fraser Gallery

Group Show, Bethesda, MD April 2004

F.A.N. Gallery

Group Show, Philadelphia, PA March 2004

Granary Gallery

Group Show, Martha’s Vineyard, MA August 2003

7th Annual Georgetown International Art Competition

Fraser Gallery Washington, DC July 2003

F.A.N. Gallery

Solo Show, Philadelphia, PA July 2003

F.A.N. Gallery

Group Show, Philadelphia, PA September 2002

Granary Gallery

Group Show, Martha’s Vineyard, MA August 2002

Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition

Finalist in Still Life “A Dissembling Breeze” August 2002

“Vernissage: A One Woman Show”  

The Framer’s Gallery, York, PA  October 2001

Art of the State Juried Exhibition

State Museum of Pennsylvania  June-September 2001

Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery

Lebanon Valley College, Spring Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Lebanon PA 2001

Second Place in Show “The Folder”

York Arts Small Works Exhibit

York Arts Gallery, York PA Dec. ’99-Jan. 2000

York Art Association 29th Annual Open Juried Exhibition

York PA 1999

Winsor Newton Award for Artistic Excellence

Elizabethtown College Annual Juried Spring Show

Elizabethtown PA 1999

York Art Association 28th Annual Open Juried Exhibition

York PA 1998

Best of Show  |  First Place in Acrylic  |  First Place in Graphics and other Media

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

1999-April 2000  Whittaker Art Center, Harrisburg PA.

Commissioned by portrait artist Tina Reiley Phillips to design initial sketch and panel projection for 8’x20’ painting of theater patrons (for Theater Harrisburg) in the fall of ‘98, then worked over the winter and early spring of ‘99-2000 as her painting assistant.

Painting was unveiled 2 April 2000 and is now on permanent display in the lobby of the Whittaker Center for Science and the Arts in downtown Harrisburg Pennsylvania.