My body of work has evolved through my interest in abstract art, my love of gardens, and my passion for working with and expressing myself with clay. I use hard-edged forms with organic imagery in a stacked format to create large-scale totems. Many of the forms I use are done with the help of found and recycled objects. Working this way gives me an ever changing inventory of objects with which to design sculpture and encourages me to look for more good finds wherever I go.
Education
1977 B.F.A. Ceramics
SUNY New Paltz, NY
Teaching Experience
’90-’91 Adjunct Professor of Ceramics
SUNY New Paltz, NY
Publications
Wheel Thrown Ceramics
Lark Books p. 71
Best of Pottery
Rockport Publishers, cover, p. 69,73,82
The Ceramic Design Book
Lark Books p. 37,127
The Best of Pottery, Volume 2
Rockport Publishers p.65
The Art of Contemporary American Pottery
Krause Publishing p.114
Ceramic Art Tile for the Home
Schiffer Books, cover, p.123
500 Bowls
Lark Books
Awards
2007 Purchase Prize
Juried Sculpture Show
Craven Arts Council New Bern, NC
2006 Second Prize
Juried Sculpture Show
Craven Arts Council New Bern, NC
2004 Honorable Mention
Small Teapot Competition
Saddleback College, CA
1998 Award of Distinction
Westmoreland Art Nationals
1997 Grant Recipient
Empire State Crafts
Alliance
1996 NICHE Award
The Rosen Group, MD
1993 Best Political Statement
Artist Against Powerlines,
Utica, NY
1991 Craft Award of the Year
Westmoreland Arts
National
Youngwood, PA
1989 Tile Award
Fourth Annual Monarch
Tile Competition
San Angelo Museum, San
Angelo, TX
1984 First Prize
Three Rivers Art Festival,
Pittsburgh
1979 Honor Award
Schenectady Art Museum,
NY
1979 Purchase Prize
Pensacola Crafts National,
FL
1978 First Prize
The Covered Jar Show
Westwood Ceramic
Supply, CA
1977 Second Prize
The Philadelphia Craft
Show, PA
Invitational & Juried Exhibitions
2010 Sculpture Garden
Exhibition at Brecknock
Hall, Greenport, NY
2009 Sculpture Visions
Chapel Hill, NC
2009 Palenville Outdoor
Sculpture Exhibit
Palenville, NY
2009 River Journey, Sculpture
at the Donahue
Memorial Park
Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY
2009 Flora: Growing
Inspirations at the United
States Botanical Gardens
Washington, DC
2007 The Sculpture
Salmagundi XI
Rocky Mount Arts Center, NC
2006, 07, 08 Juried Sculpture Show, Craven Arts
Council New Bern, NC
2006 Anxious Objects
Samuel Dorsky Museum New Paltz, NY
2005 Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood
Chesterwood Museum Stockbridge, MA
2005 Contemporary Clay
Yager Museum at Hartwick College, NY
2005, 2007 Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY
2005 Small Sculpture
Competition
Delmar College
Corpus Christi, TX
2004, 05,06,07,08, 09 Annual
Sculpture Show
Unison Art Cente
New Paltz, NY
2004 The Big Show/NCECA
4 Star Gallery
Indianapolis, IN
2002 Hudson Valley Artists
2002, Samuel Dorsky
Museum
New Paltz, NY
2001 Teapot Show
Moynihan Fine Art
Holland, MI
2001 Teapot Show
Greater Reston Arts Center, VA
2000 Porcelain 2000
Esmay Fine Art Gallery
Rochester, NY
1999 New York State Crafts
NYS Museum, Albany, NY
1999 National Crafts
Competition, Kennedy
Douglass Center for the
Arts
1998 Two Person Show
Sullivan County Museum
Hurleyville, NY
1998 From Function to Form
College Art Gallery
SUNY New Paltz, NY
1998 The Aura of Tea
Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY
1997 New York State Crafts
NYS Museum, Albany, NY
1997 Second Annual Best in America Stones Gallery
San Francisco, CA
1997 From the Ground Up
Austin Museum of Art, TX
1997 USA Crafts Today
Silvermine Arts Center
New Canaan, CT
1997 A Centennial Celebration of The American Ceramic
Society, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
1997 Porcelain ‘97
Shoestring Gallery
Rochester, NY
1996 The Cup as a Metaphor II
Sybaris Gallery
Royal Oak, MI
1996 Functional Clay ‘96
Shoestring Gallery
Rochester, NY
1996 Teapot and Tableware
Ohio Craft Museum,
Columbus Ohio
1995 Monarch National
Ceramic Competition
Kennedy-Douglas Center
for the Arts
Florence, AL
1995 I’m a Little Teapot
Islip Art Museum, NY
1994 Teapot Show
Nancy Margolis Gallery
Portland, ME
1993 Teapot Show
Nancy Margolis Gallery
Portland, ME
1993 The Wichita National
The Wichita Center for the Arts, KS
1993 Teapots
Tempe Art Center, AZ
1993 Artists Against
Powerlines, Utica, NY
1993 National Teapot Show II
Cedar Creek Gallery, NC
1992 Three Rivers Juried
National
Pittsburgh, PA
1992 Ceramics Now
University City Arts
League, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Sixth Monarch Tile
Competition
San Angelo Museum of
Art, TX
1991 Tea Party
American Craft Museum
New York, NY
1991 Westmoreland Arts
National, Westmoreland Community College, PA
1990 Teapot Show
Appalachiana Gallery
Washington, DC
1990 Teapot Show
Pittsburgh Center for the
Arts, PA
1990 Materials Hard and Soft
Center for the Visual Arts, Denton,TX
1989 Teapot Show
Lee Sclar Gallery
Morristown, NJ
1989 Cedar Creek National
Teapot Show
Creemor, NC