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Healing Power of Art Award
18 October 2022

I am pleased to have been selected to receive a Special Recognition Art Award from “The Healing Power of ART: Resilience 2022” exhibition. Following are excerpts…

Figurative Leanings: Installment 9
26 May 2018

When my son was in nursery school I decided to go back to school toward a Masters in Family Therapy at what was then Hahnemann…

The Next Stage: Installment 8
06 April 2018

From the beginning I have always been awed by theater spaces. During elementary school assemblies I would stare at the layers of velvet curtains on…

Connecting Dots: Installment 7
05 February 2018

RELATIONAL PROPERTY: a property that depends on a thing’s relationship to other things. While taking philosophy at Rice, I was intrigued with the concept of…

Fully Cooked: Installment #6
06 January 2018

Through the years my paintings have been ‘fully cooked’ entities. Under-paintings (painted sketches) are sometimes spontaneously loose so I know I could work that way…

Installment Five: Draping Abstract Space
23 December 2017

Texture, color, light, shadow, depth, food for thought: Mix all these ingredients into the stew and maybe the outcome is an overcooked mash.  Or maybe…

Approaching The Center – Installment 4
08 December 2017

My masters thesis exhibit was called Approaching The Center. Each large canvas was entitled Center Space Variation and numbered. The average size was 5’ X…

Kitsch or Quiche? (third installment)
01 December 2017

The atmosphere of UMASS’ MFA program took some getting used to. In a school of 25,000 students there were only five painting candidates admitted per…

Still The Beginning (second installment)
17 November 2017

At Rice my interests outside of art were developing. Among them were classical music and philosophy.  I also had wonderful art history classes, and during…