Mediums - oil paint, gouache, pastel & pencil, collage and solar etching

Artist's Statement -Somewhere between abstraction and non-objective imagery, my art deals with human scale and a sense of place. I am interested in the tension created by combinations such as menacing and inviting, inside and outside, the personal and the collective, the measurable and the infinite. I utilize both a control of the medium and an allowance for the accidental. Shifts of the image occur while I work and become part of the finished piece. The work reflects the uneasy relationship between random acts and carefully planned decisions. My art is influenced by architecture and photography. There are hints of landscape and astronomy in the work, although I try to keep things as non-referential as possible. The surface is as important to me as the imagery and I work with these two elements, the physical properties of the material and the metaphorical content of the image, in every piece.

Biography - Born 1950 1973 BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts 1976 MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Studied Painting and Printmaking. Currently lives in New York City.

Gallery Affiliations - The DeBottis Gallery West Chester, Pennsylvania COLLECTIONS: AT&T New York, New York Chemical Bank New York, New York Diverse Productions Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gecko Group Advertising West Chester, Pennsylvania Graham Gund Collection Cambridge, Massachusetts Harcourt Health Sciences Company Philadelphia, Pennsylvania International Transport Finance Limited New York, New York Mellon-PSFS Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mitchell Community College, Statesville, North Carolina Wachovia Bank Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Exhibitions - SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2003 The DeBottis Gallery West Chester, Pennsylvania Gouaches and Solar Etchings 200 The DeBottis Gallery West Chester, Pennsylvania Paintings 1999 Akar Architecture & Design Iowa City, Iowa Paintings 1999 The DeBottis Gallery West Chester, Pennsylvania Paintings and Sculpture 1999 The Philadelphia Art Alliance Members' Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Work on Paper 1998 The Germantown Academy Arts Center Fort Washington, Pennsylvania Painting and Work on Paper GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2001 Tufts University Annual Juried Alumni Art Exhibition Medford, Massachusetts 2001 The Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Art for Artists' Sake 1999 The DeBottis Gallery West Chester, Pennsylvania 1998 The DeBottis Gallery West Chester, Pennsylvania 1998 The Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Abstract Strategies, A Selection of Regional Artists