Reverie: Day/Night This painting shows two images of my mother in her New York apartment, sitting at ther table and working at the sink in the evening. SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS Juror's Award, 1/2006, Women's Caucus for Art, Everything Begins in the Water at Mayyim Hayyim, Newton Teacher of watercolor class "Vision and Expression" in Lesley University Seminars 2004, 2005 Sagendorph Memorial Prize, Yankee Magazine, 2001 Commission, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2000 Who's Who in American Art, 1995 Co-founder of Artists for Survival, group for peace and social justice, 1982 Co-founder of Artists West Studios, Waltham, MA, 1980 Bunting Institute Fellowship in Painting and Printmaking, 1971–73 Fulbright Fellowship in Painting, Paris, 1963–4 Columbia University, MFA, 1962 Radcliffe College; Brandeis University, BA Fine Arts, 1960 Kokoschka School: Salzburg, Austria, Summer 1959; City Award/Painting Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, summers 1957–58 |
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Growing up in New York City I attended the High School of Music and Art and went often to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn from Cezanne. As a student at Radcliffe, I met and was encouraged by Agnes Mongan, then Curator of Drawings at the Fogg Museum, and through her support studied for two summers at the Skowhegan School in Maine. This intense experience led me to transfer to Brandeis and to major in studio art, taking courses with Arthur Polonsky and Mitchell Siporin. A summer studying with Oskar Kokoschka at his "School of Vision" in Salzburg was a major influence. Later I found work in New York, teaching science at the Fashion Institute of Technology and as a studio assistant at the Pratt Graphic Center. As a graduate student at Columbia University, I worked with my advisor Meyer Schapiro, on my thesis "The Comparison of Form and Structure in the Paintings of Vermeer and Mondrian," relating the tightly composed realistic space of Vermeer to the syncopated rhythms and abstract structure of Mondrian. I was very much inspired by the power and energy of the New York Abstract Expressionist artists. For many years I have been attempting to portray my experience of city life. I am drawn to collage and collage-like images that combine disparate and unexpected elements. I hope these impressionns will reveal multiple perceptions and interpretations to the viewer. I also want to suggest associations of time and memory, and the relationship and interaction of images, both past and present, in an attempt to mirror the workings of the mind.
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