how it all started

My formal artmaking training began in 1980 at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont under Jefferson Weiss. In 1982-1984 I apprenticed as a draftsman to Harold Rolls, architect, in Burlington, Vermont. In 1984 I began working as the registrar of the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island in Hempstead, New York, and there I met the artist and teacher Jerry Okimoto, who gave me much advice and encouragement.

In 1990, frustrated with my low level of income despite exhibitions and some professional success, I went back to school and obtained a Master’s of Science degree in Environmental Science from Long Island University in Brookville, New York, and I was hired as a scientist for New York City’s Bureau of Water Supply in 1993.

In 2016 I transferred from the Bureau of Water Supply to the Bureau of Water and Sewer Operations where I assist with planning drainage options in the face of climate change impacts. I have continued to make and exhibit my sculptures since 1981, and I am currently a member of Noho/M55 Gallery at 548 W. 28th St. in New York City.

Visual Artist

My sculptures before 1990, for example “America Unsettled” and “Fingerbones of the President”, might be considered didactic: an expression of thoughts fairly easily formulated into words.

As a visual artist, I’d like the sculptures to embody feelings not readily verbalized. Most of my sculptures over the last 20 years or so attempt to convey how wholesome, just, and sustainable communities might feel.

This arises from my feminism.