I create abstract art because it is the most original, honest way I can work.  If I evoke a feeling, memory or emotion from my viewer, I feel I have succeeded.  I feel my responsibility as an artist is to create work that causes people to stop and explore the subtleties of the image.  In my approach, I attempt to initiate but not answer the questions.

For me, painting in an abstract manner is definitely “flying by the seat of your pants” and I love the challenge and exhilaration.  I have been creating art, painting, drawing for most of my life.  It is who I am—my raison d’etre.

 

My process now includes plaster, acrylic paints, pastels, charcoal, graphite, and sometimes just acrylic paint & perhaps ink. Although I have worked in many different media over the years, these are the ones I’m drawn to today.  Having started, as most painters do, in a rather realistic fashion, I discovered abstract painting through the Abstract Expressionists of the 40’s, 50’s and 60s. They were and remain an inspiration to me.  Oftentimes I find that a thought, dream or experience will be the catalyst for a series of paintings but whatever I am working on, I find that my main motivation is an intense, innate desire to create.  Painting takes me to a deep, secret place within myself that I am unable to access any other way.  It is an imaginary, childlike dream world where thoughts, ideas and expressions are allowed to roam free, unfettered by judgment or scorn.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor of Arts, 1991

Barry University, Miami Shores, FL

 

SELECTED AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS

 

2014 Avis Frank Gallery – January – Galveston, TX – 2 artist exhibition

2012  Art Basel, Miami, Fl - January

2011 Corse Gallery & Atelier – January – Jacksonville, FL

2010  Onessimo Fine Art – December – Palm Beach Gardens, FL

      “Unique Vision”- 2 artist exhibition

2010  Armory Art Center – November – West Palm Beach, FL

         “National Call to Artists”

    Watch for Excellence Award

2009  Onessimo Fine Art – November - Palm Beach Gardens, FL

     “Raw Elements” – solo exhibit

2009   Carey Addison Gallery – January - Miami, FL

     “Back to the Future” – 2 artist exhibition

2007    54 ^th Annual HORT Exhibit – June -  Ft. Lauderdale, FL

             2^nd Place

2004  Induction into the National Association of Women Artists, Metropolitan Museum, NYC

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Art Basel – Art Miami - 2012

Florida Design Magazine - October, November, December, 2009

Florida Design’s Art and Antiques Magazine -  January 2008

New Times Broward – Palm Beach, July 2007

Miami Art Explosion – March, 2007

EXPERIENCE

2000 to 2014 – Workshop instructor – Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina,

                New York, Italy

2000 to 2014 – Art Instructor – Cornell Museum Art School, Delray Beach, FL

2000 to 2014 – Private painting instruction