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 ten 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.

Two of my drawings were selected for the 2025 exhibition Dogs & Cats at SEPTEMBER gallery in Kinderhook, New York. My painting Madame O was included in the Director’s Choice portion of the 2025 Viridian Artists Gallery 33rd Annual International Juried Exhibition. My painting The Summer Before the Fall was included in the 2020 Prince Street Gallery National Juried Exhibition. My painting Young Man Being Comforted with Apples was included in the 1989 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Annual Juried Exhibition at the Schenectady Museum and won a juror’s 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. You can learn about my editing services at www.ozaroff-editing.com/.