About me

I’ve lived in the West Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia since 2015. Before my husband and I moved here, our family lived in the Boston area for more than twenty years.

During most of the 1980s, I lived and made art in New York City (Manhattan and Brooklyn), where I was part of a vibrant and supportive group of artist friends. When Peter and I left the city for Albany, I lost that community . . . and my moorings as an artist. When we moved to Philly nine years ago, I started making art again.

This website features work from both time periods of my life as an artist (as well as a few decorative pieces from the years in between). My Undoing represents a bridge between those two periods: I started the painting in 1992 and abandoned it in 1993, but a few years after we moved to Philly (when I once again had a studio), I decided to take another stab at it, and I finished the damn thing in 2019.

My painting The Summer Before the Fall was included in the 2020 Prince Street Gallery National Juried Exhibition (juror: Susan Lichtman). My painting Young Man Being Comforted with Apples was included in the 1989 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Juried Exhibition at the Schenectady Museum (juror: John Yau?) and won the Soave Faire Art award. I also had a solo exhibition at the Chappaqua Library (in my hometown of Chappaqua, New York) in 1980.

I graduated from Yale University in 1979 with a B.A. in Art, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in the Major. I received a painting fellowship to the Yale Summer School of Art at Norfolk in 1978. At Yale and Norfolk, I studied with William Bailey, Bernie Chaet, Gretna Campbell, Samia Halaby, Louis Finkelstein, and Andrew Forge (who was my senior project advisor).

I work as a freelance editor, specializing in art, art history, and other academic disciplines in the humanities.