Hello!
When I was 17, I had a summer job working as the assistant in the advertising department of the original Abercrombie & Fitch store on Madison Avenue in New York. (It was not the Abercrombie people know these days. Abercrombie & Fitch was the world's finest store for all sorts of sporting, hunting & fishing equipment. It's where Teddy Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy shopped.) Every day A&F ran an ad on the same page of The New York Times, and my job was to get all the materials for that ad, have the art studio create the layout, and at the end of the day, take the "mechanical" of the ad to The New York Times building on West 43rd Street on my way to Penn Station to go home to NJ. The next morning on the train back into NYC, I would see the ad (“my” ad) printed in The New York Times! That started my love of advertising.
College came next and I studied fine arts and languages. I wanted to work at the UN and travel the world. But, I took a painting class at Skidmore and turned a corner. I had my own studio at school and painted large Monet-inspired abstract landscapes. My professor would stop by periodically and just say “Keep going.”
After graduation when I was looking for a job in NY, I answered an ad for a studio assistant and discovered it was for Helen Frankenthaler. She invited me to tea at her home, and all seemed great until she told me it was an unpaid job. Unfortunately, I needed a job that paid.
So, advertising it was...and is. I’ve loved it for all these years and have been able to travel all over the world shooting commercials.
During all my years of travel, I started passing the time in airports and on flights by tearing bits of color pages out of magazines and gluing them into a notebook. Those were my first collages, and now, I return to them as inspiration for paintings. I love playing with the shapes and colors...having them clash and collide and finding their beautiful place.
The collages are the first step and then I start painting - large paintings - and playing with all the geometric shapes and colors. These paintings require discipline and coloring “inside the lines.” I can only do that for so long, and then I get the urge to use big, sweeping strokes and coloring “outside the lines.” These paintings are inspired by things I see in my garden and all around me. I love the “architecture” of flowers - the forms and shapes and colors - and I work to bring them to life in unexpected ways.
I’m also exploring translating some paintings and collages into large 3-D pieces, mobiles, textiles and furniture.
My studio is in an 1840s building that was a General Store and Post Office.
Thank you for reading and looking at my work! I’d love to hear from you.
PERMANENT COLLECTION
The Royalton Hotel - New York City
EXHIBITIONS
Galerie Lucida, NJ 2024
Oyster Point Gallery, NJ 2024
Galerie Lucida, NJ 2023
Park Across the Street Gallery, NJ 2022
Maison 10, New York City 2020
Gallery Jupiter, NJ 2020
ArtBasel Miami, 2019
Beauregard Gallery, NJ 2019
PRESS
RUMSON Journal, July, 2025
NJ Monthly Magazine, January, 2021
RUMSON Journal, October, 2020
Community Magazine, September, 2020
Work in private collections in California, Colorado, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington
