BIOGRAPHY

In the fall of 2022, I was introduced to Cape Ann as a Manship Artist in Residence, MARS. Cape Ann is a rocky peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. It is thirty miles northeast of Boston. My studio at MARS sat in full view of a private abandoned granite quarry. The coastal topography encompasses rocky headlands, sandy beaches, and rolling hills. It is a breathtaking contrast to my New York City urban scape. Following my residency at MARS, I elected to rent a studio apartment on Folly Cove, located at the boundary of Gloucester and Rockport in Cape Ann. Folly Cove is a 75-yard rocky beach sandwiched between two long points. A progressive group of woman artisans, the Folly Cove Printmakers, founded their studio across the street from the Cove in 1938 and continued their vibrant work until 1969. Rocky Neck and Gloucester’s first artists colonies were founded in the mid-1800’s. This region attracted many important artists both realist and abstract painters. Not unlike the Folly Cove Printmakers they left a rich legacy that is recognized and celebrated today. In the Fall of 2023, I purchased a home and moved my studio full-time to Lanesville located between Ipswich Bay and the historic woods of Dogtown. Lanesville is a small diverse community in Gloucester along the coast and adjacent Folly Cove. This was the beginning of a new chapter in my studio practice. As so many artist historically can attest, one cannot avoid being seduced by the clouds, horizon, the extreme terrain, and the sea. It is profound and has impacted how I think about space and time. It has changed my choice of medium, palette, and how I see. Consequently, I have embraced this new experience and landscape in my art work. It is a dramatic shift from my formal post-minimal works on paper from of the late 1980’s and 1990’s. And a shift from my more recent abstract urban scape’s drawn on vellum. Throughout most of my career I was a formalist. I avoided visual content. I approached my work conceptually. Color was not a consideration. I established a geometric visual language that was central to my work for almost forty years. Today I am painting in oil with color on linen, wood panels, and pastel on paper. My most recent work is composed from architectonic interpretative drawings or landscape cartoons drawn directly on the linen. My subject is the world I am occupying interwoven with the rich memories of places that I have traveled and lived. The work is spirited and playful. It is a composite of my past and the present woven together. I have come from the plains and the grids of Manhattan and am now riding the waves.