Sculpture Affiliates of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey

Artist Statement

These 3-dimensional abstract works come from an inner impulse that takes shape from the materials I use and where they are placed. The materials are mostly soft and malleable - easily crushed, twisted and layered and provide contrast in translucency, weight, color and texture. The hard metals and chains counter the soft substances.

Where I place these disparate parts is key to the development of the work. Placement may serve to divide the space providing structure and establishing focal points, or the parts may be free floating with an undefined structure. Placement also provides movement and direction. All of which combined, form a cohesive work to be experienced.

And it is all about process, because I do not start a work with a specific vision in mind. It is only after I choose and place the materials that I step back to see if the piece is working for me. If not, I play around and make changes until I am satisfied.

How do I know the work has come to a plausible conclusion? If it makes sense to me; if I respond to it and it says, “I can live with you.” 

These works are evidence of an overall need to express an inner emotion within an aesthetic composition. Choice, process, realization. It all makes for a great adventure.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015 Constructs and Collage: Recent Works, 

Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2003 New Jersey Artists Series, Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, 

New Brunswick, NJ 

2002 Recent Assemblages, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 

1998 Ceres, Soho, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Sculptor Affiliates of ACNNJ, Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ

2019 The New Abstractionists XII, 3-Person Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY  

2016 The New Abstractionists Part X, 4-person show, Walter Wickiser Gallery NY, NY

2013 Painting Affiliates of ACNNJ, JCC at Metrowest, West Orange, NJ 

New Abstractionists VIII, 4-Person Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY 

2013 New Abstractionists Part XI, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2011 New Abstractionists V, 4-Persons Show, WWG, NewYork, NY 

Sculptor Affiliates of ACNNJ, The National Arts Club, New York, NY 

Real(ists), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL 

2009 Sculpture at Play II, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 

2007 Sculpture at Play, 4-Person Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 

Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy 

2006 Artists in Conversation, 2-Person Show, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

2005 9 Artists, Sculptor Affiliates, The National Arts Club, New York, NY 

2003 Of Myth and Metaphor, Arabesque and Line, 4-Person Show, WWG, New York, NY 

1998 The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts, Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Germany 

1997 Affirmative Action: Celebrating Women, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 

1993 Fellowship Exhibition, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 

1992 Painting: NJ, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ 

Fellowship

1991/92 New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State

Awards

1993 Outstanding Achievement Award, New Horizons: 1992-1993

    NJSCA Fellowship Recipients Exhibition, 

    Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ 

Review 

ARTnews, November 2013

Affiliation

Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY

Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milord, NJ

Painting & Sculptor Affiliates of ACNNJ, New Milford, NJ

Ceres Gallery, New York, NY; 1994-1999

Education 

1981-82 Art Students League, New York, NY

1981-85 Art Center of Northern New Jersey, New Milford, NJ

1983-85 New School of Social Research, New York, NY 

1953-57 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, B.A.