The world came to life for me when I got my first pair of glasses at age seven and could see the sky and trees in all their staggering detail for the first time. I was smitten.

After my childhood in rural Connecticut, I spent much of my adult life in cities — Providence for my undergraduate education at Brown University and RISD; NYC for a Masters in art therapy from New York University; and Washington, DC. These urban experiences changed my basic constitution and I became a hybrid affirmed by the dualities of the horizontal and the vertical, the organic and the constructed. The square grid asserted itself into my basic vocabulary.

In 2009 I received an award from the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund in order to devote myself more fully to making art. Gallery Neptune in Bethesda, MD and Zenith Gallery in Washington, DC represented me prior to relocating to Vermont in 2016. My work is shown in US exhibits and is in collections, domestic and abroad.

I am especially interested in thinking about reality vs. illusion and considering where art begins and ends…