As an artist deeply engaged in the dialogue between materiality and meaning, I create mixed media collages and intricately scaled sculptures that reflect my fascination with transformation. Since learning to transform a flat piece of metal into a vessel during my formative teenage years, I have been captivated by the process of material transformation.
My recent sculptures have explored the potential of layering materials thick and thin, delicate and bold. By using found and repurposed objects, I allow abstract ideas to emerge through play and interaction. Innocuous items like plastic pull tabs, bottle caps, and flattened cans are embedded in resin and paper pulp, or combined with cardboard, wood, and metal.
I am a hunter and gatherer of all sorts of found materials and objects that make their way into my work in one way or another. Whether its a walk in prospect park, on the sidewalks of Brooklyn or a sandy beach my eyes are to the ground scavenging for materials to combine urban with natural in both collage and sculptural work.
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Selected Exhibitions
2025 “The Art of the Educator”, Education and Research Building MoMA, Mar 10-Apr 27
2024 MASS Art, Teaching Artistic Behavior, Making Artist show
2024 SLA Gallery, "Constellation, Women's Invitational, NYC
2023 Dolce Valvo Art Center, "Strata", Sanborn, NY
2021 Manifest Gallery, "Epiphanies", Cincinnati, OH
2021 Vayo Collage Gallery, "Compression", Rochester, NY
2019 MASS Art, Teaching Artistic Behavior, Making Artists show
2016-2019 Jewelry Craft fair, PS130 Annual Winter bizarre, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Renegade Craft fair, Marsha P. Johnson State Park Brooklyn, NY
2002 “Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program”, Ace Gallery, NYC
1999 “Packing a Punch”, Eyewash Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997 “Drawn Together”, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1997 “Small Works on Paper”, Kentler Int.Drawing Center, Brooklyn
1995 “Select Paintings and Sculpture”, Pleiades Gallery, NYC
1995 “Kouroi & Korai”, Kouros Gallery, NYC
1994 “Thing One”, Millworks Gallery, Akron OH
1994 “Annual Show”, Society of Sculptors, Pittsburgh Center of Arts, Jurors award
Solo Exhibitions
1998 “Japan Impressions”, Kirinya Gallery, Ehime Japan
1994 “Expressions Through Line”, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Artist Residencies
2023 321 Artist Residency, Buffalo, NY
1994 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, “The Space Program”, NYC
1994 Sculpture Artist in Residence, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
Education
MA Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University 2004
MFA Sculpture, Kent State University 1993
BFA Fiber Cleveland Institute of Art 1991
Interlochen Arts Academy 1986
Publications
Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program 1991-2002
Quarterly Newsletter, Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio Spring 1995