biography
I have been a full-time artist with a home studio since 2010, when I retired from my day-job in San Diego and moved back to the Philadelphia area. I had been a 'kitchen table artist' for most of my life prior to that, from childhood on.
I was a psychotherapist in private practice for over thirty years, with a special interest in dreams, and the relationship of creativity and the unconscious. Prior to that I was an Art History major at Columbia University. Life in New York City was my best art education.
I plunged into memoir writing in 2022. I am a member of San Diego Writers Ink, and the International Memoir Writers Association.
All my previous experiences in life inform who I am both as an artist and a writer today, whether my years as a psychotherapist or my year in a remote Eskimo village as a VISTA Volunteer.
Exhibitions
Philadelphia
Dupree Gallery: Celebrating 30 Years, The Philadelphia Dumpster Divers, April 8, 2022 - May 2022
The Neon Museum of Philadelphia: the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers, Alchemy Illuminated, November 5 - December 19, 2021
Da Vinci Art Alliance Members Show: Light, December 2 - December 20, 2020
Main Line Art Center, Professional Artist Members Exhibition 2020, juried exhibition, March 13th - April 12, 2020
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: The Art of the Flower 2020, March 2 - March 19, 2020
2020 Members Exhibition: Main Line Art Center, January 10 - February 9, 2020
Artists Equity Juried show: Community Arts Center, October 26 - November 27, 2019
Sweet Mabel Art & Craft: featured artist, September 2019
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: ABSTRACTION 2019 juried Exhibition, August 5 - August 29, 2019
iMPeRFeCT Gallery: Salon de Refusess Phiadelphia June 29-July 27, 2019 (works not included in Woodmere Museum Annuals)
Artists Equity Members' Juried Exhibition: GoggleWorks Center, March 15-April 27, 2019
Women's Caucus for Art Philly + Women Holler!: Now!, Philadelphia's City Hall, juried exhibition, January 14 - March 22, 2019
DaVinci Art Alliance and International House: Lens on Latin America, juried exhibition, January 7 - March 22, 2019
Main Line Art Center: Professional Artist Members Exhibition: 2019, juried exhibition, January 5 - February 3, 2019
Dupree Gallery: "Re-Crafted" Found-Object Art of the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers, October 26-December 29, 2018
Philadelphia Sketch Club: Absolutely Abstract, juried exhibition, August 22-September 19, 2018
Tri-State Artists Equity Spring Juried Members Exhibition: June 3-27, 2018, Baker Gallery, West Chester University
Pendle Hill: Clay Monoprints: Dreams, Visions, and Alternate Realities. Solo exhibit, October 5, 2017 - February 1, 2018
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: 2017 Absolutely Abstract Open Juried Show, July 21 - August 12, 2017
Old City Jewish Art Center: DEEP SIX, Harmony in Diversity, May 1-28, 2017
The Plastic Club: Small Worlds, annual exhibition of small works, March 5 - 23, 2017
Snowflake Biennial, Heavy Bubble Headquarters, January 14 - February 25, 2017
Main Line Art Center Members Exhibition: December 2, 2016 - January 5, 2017
Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia, Outside In, November 4-30, 2016
Philadelphia Dumpster Divers: "Mixed Media", Media Arts Council, August 11-28, 2016
Da Vinci Art Alliance: Second Language, August 3-28, 2016
Community Arts Center: Annual Members Exhibition, July 24-August 26, 2016
Da Vinci Art Alliance: July Members Exhibition, July 6 - 27, 2016
Philadelphia Dumpster Divers: Philly VOTE, City Hall, June 13-July 29, 2016
Communiuty Arts Center: Improvise, May 6-June 4 2016. Juried by Rachel Zimmerman
Da Vinci Art Alliance: 85/564 Exhibition, April 6-24, 2016
The Plastic Club, Small Worlds, March 6 - 24, 2016
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: Works on Paper Open Juried Art Show, January 2-24, 2016
Dupree Gallery: If Walls Could Talk, The Philadelphia Dumpster Divers, December 20, 2015-January 31, 2016
Main Line Art Center Members Exhibition: December 5, 2015 - January 4, 2016
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill: Counterpoint: A Visual Duet, together with Melvin A. Chappell photographer, November 6-29, 2015
The Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art (PhilaMOCA): 'Murica: A Patriotic Art Show, July 3 - 28, 2015
Mishkan Shalom Synagogue: solo exhibition in connection with Arts Night Delights, May 4 - 22, 2015
Philadelphia/Tri-State Artists Equity Association: 66th Anniversary Members Juried Exhibition, April 19 - May 21, 2015
Goggleworks: Upcycling - the Art of the Dumpster Divers, Jan. 10, 2015 - Feb. 22, 2015
Da Vinci Art Alliance: Artful Giving 2014, Dec. 7 2014 - Jan.25, 2015
Main Line Art Center: Members Exhibition, Dec. 6, 2014 - Jan. 5, 2015
Philadelphia Dumpster Divers: LOST & FOUND, West Chester University, The New Gallery at E. O. Bull Center for the Arts, October 27 - December 12, 2014
Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity Assoc.: Fall Members' Juried Exhibition, Sept 7 - Oct 4, 2014
Artists Unite! Project Fishtown 2, September 5 -7, 2014
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: Absolutely Abstract 2014, August 22 - September 13, 2014
Da Vinci Art Alliance: Some Like It Hot, the August Show, August 6-27, 2014
Da Vinci Art Alliance: Medium, Annual Members Exhibition, July 2-27, 2014
The Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art (PhilaMOCA): Murica! A Patriotic Art Show, July 4 -30, 2014
2nd annual ARTISTS Against Hunger Exhibition, juried by Moe Brooker, May 1-4, 2014, at Da Vinci Art Alliance
Destination Frankford Pop-Up Gallery: Reclaim, with the Dumpster Divers, April 19 - May 17, 2014
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: Art of the Flower 2014, March 7 - 22, 2014
The Plastic Club: Small Worlds, March 2 - 27, 2014
3rd Street Gallery 4th Annual Community Exhibition: February 5 - March 2, 2014
National Archives at Philadelphia: Archives Alchemy: The Art of the Dumpster Divers, January 10 - July 22, 2014
Main Line Art Center: Members' Exhibition, November 9 - 22, 2013
Da Vinci Art Alliance: Deep Six, November 3 - 29, 2013. Six artists presenting individual bodies of work.
The Philadelphia Sketch Club: Absolutely Abstract 2013, August 9 - 24, 2013
Earth Fair, Burlington County N.J.: 2nd Time Around. Recycled and Repurposed Art., June 9, 2013
ARTISTS Against Hunger Exhibit to benefit The Food Trust: at DaVinci Art Alliance, May 2-5, 2013, Juried by Mo Brooker
Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity Assoc.: 64th Anniversary Members Juried Exhibition, April 3 - June 22, 2013
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Continuing Education Programs Annual Juried Student Exhibition, March 1 - April 7, 2013
Honorable Mention.
Gladwyne Library League: Arts and Crafts Show, March 4 - 9, 2013
The Plastic Club: Small Worlds, March 3 - 28, 2013
Main Line Art Center: 2012 Members' Exhibition, December 14, 2012 - January 11, 2013
DaVinci Art Alliance: Yuletide Treasures, December 2 - 30, 2012
Tyme Gallery 15th Juried Exhibition: Looking for the Inner Essence, August 19 2012 - September 8, 2012
DaVinci Art Alliance's Annual Members Exhibition: Summer in the City, July 7 - 29, 2012. Pat Burns Memorial Prize.
DaVinci Art Alliance at St. Stephen's Theater: Love and Loss: Reflections on Romeo and Juliet, March 21 - April 8, 2012. Honorable Mention.
Main Line Art Center: 75th Annual Members' Exhibition, February 11 - March 8, 2012. Royalty Press Group Inc. Award. Prize Juror: Robet Cozzolino, Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
MUSE Gallery: Collaborative/34, February 3 -26, 2012
Main Line Art Center: Play: Toying with Art, December 2011-January 2012
3rd Street Gallery Community Exhibit, February 2011
San Diego
I participated in over one hundred group exhibitions, including:
The San Diego Art Institute
The Cross Cultural Center of the University of California, San Diego
The Women’s History Museum
AIDS Art Alive
Limbo Fine Art Gallery
The Next Door Gallery
Women’s Caucus for Art - various shows
San Dieguito Art Guild (1st Place, Small Image Show)
Borelli Space (Juror’s Choice Award)
Two-Person show: Art Union Building
Four-Person show: Crossroads
Education
Clay monoprinting workshops with Mitch Lyons: December 2016 - his death, March 5, 2018
Fleisher Art Memorial, Feb - June 2014
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA): Continuing Education Workshops in Printmaking, October & November 2012
The Barnes Foundation: ART NOW, Spring Semester 2012
Main Line Art Center (January 2011 -2018)
Workshops over the years with Nick Capaci and Jondi Northcutt (print-making), Helen Redman (creativity and aging), Alfred Van Loen (stone carving), and others
The Art Students League of New York during my college years
Columbia University B.S. (Art History)
Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, M.S.S.
San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute (Advanced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)
SoulCollage® Facilitator Training
