Education:

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 1985 BFA Interior Architecture
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1964 BA Art

Exhibitions:

2005 Muskegon Museum of Art, 77th Regional Exhibit
1999 The Plum Line Gallery, Evanston, IL, Solo Show
1998 The Plum Line Gallery, Evanston, IL, Solo Show
1996 The Plum Line Gallery, Evanston, IL, Weiner-Wood
1995 The Plum Line Gallery, Evanston, IL, Anniversary Show
1994 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 12th Biennial

Artist Statement :

The people that move through my work began as the faceless, somewhat androgynous figures that filled my art school architectural renderings: providing scale certainly, but more significantly, through exaggerated gesture, their good feelings about inhabiting the space.

In 1991, I revisited these gesture figures and placed them in combination with simple patterns and an earthy palette as decoration for furniture, boxes, bowls and other found wooden objects. A foot stool was purchased by the Detroit Free Press Art Critic, Marsha Miro, who wrote the following description of my work. “She mixes a folk art eccentricity with modern proportions to make wonderfully decorative things.”

Since 1994, the majority of my work has been committed to canvas, where a more evolved figure is often back in an architectural environment. I use no visual references whatsoever. I paint intuitively and let these figures grow and evolve into distinct personalities, interacting with on another in decadent abandon, possible postulating some vague social commentary.