BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Egremont, Massachusetts,Berkshire County, just before World War Two began. My mother was a fashion illustrator before her marriage,and my father was a draftsman/designer. I had a lovely childhood alternating between a small village and a large lake owned by my grandparents where the family ran a
summer resort. My mother saw to it that I grew up drawing, so it has always been a part of my life.I went to Mass. College of Art,Boston, married and had two children, while continuing to make art and exhibit it where I could-During the 1st thirty years, my husband’s job moved us around the USA 23 times and he was finally able to work for German & Swiss companies so we could settle. We chose a ‘Decommissioned ‘ Church and I finally had a large space in which to work and experiment with a variety of materials and ideas I had formed over the years. We spent the next 21 years there – he traveling around the world, and I building my art, showing it around the USA, and with his help, in Italy,Germany, England. In 2013, we bought a house in the village of Saugerties in the Hudson Valley, where my studio occupies the 2nd floor. After 58 years of ups & downs, my husband died in 2019. Then COVID and the lockdown began. The studio has been a lifeline – it kept me working after a prolonged depression, provided friends when I needed them, and allowed me energy to create -I began the “Three-Ring Pandemic Circus” a group of wire figures that now number seven, and still growing. As I plan to do for the rest of my life.
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Education-
Massachusetts College of Art -Boston, Mass.
School of Visual Arts NYC
Conn. State College Willamantic Conn.Wolfgang Behl
Art Students League, NYC
2024 Article in Private Air Magazine Jan/Feb
2023/2 Articles ” ” ” Sept/ Oct, Nov./Dec
2023 Article in Art Market #78
2023. 4th prize – United Women’s International Artiast’s Prize
2022. Emerge Gallery, Featured Artist-Three- Ring Pandemic Circus
2019 Participated in PBS worldwide broadcast on online artists
2020. 109th annual,Conn. Academy of Fine Arts
2018 Featured cover artist, Art Center /Capitol Region Albany NY
Interview -feature Art New England May/June
2017. Invitation to participate-Time,Space Vision exhibition,Venice,Italy
From 2017 to 1976. Too many exhibits to list, including Showing at SUNY ORANGE three times,Proskauer prize,National Sculpture Society; 32nd Annual,Salmagundi NYC, numerous group exhibitions, Bienale Internazional Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
STATEMENT
Art using found objects has interested me since 1965 when I was living near the shore of San Francisco Bay in California, where I saw the large sculptures erected out of detritus found on the shore by local artists. They were fantastic, noisy, beautiful works with a great sense of presence, form and humor. I never forgot them. When I finally got a studio large enough to play with my ideas,I began to use my own found objects, concentrating on the beauty of the materials; rough & finished wood, lovely,textured pieces, and everything from to bone,vintage engravings, old materials, and finding unusual ways that would strech my imagination to mount these together in a permanent way. I do this not only in sculpture, but in tapestry pieces and Collage now. My favorite quote is by Virginia Woolf -” Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
