I am inspired by the great nature artists of the 18th and 19th centuries: their stark white backgrounds, obsessive detail, and quest to catalog nature’s prodigious formal invention. This meeting of art and science is contemporary — again.

But unlike those masters — who idealized the perfect specimen — I seek out a feral botany, found literally off the beaten path. More portrait than a still life, I depict subjects that are akin to us: vibrant, complex, graceful, but also vulnerable, malignant, mortal.

Selected Exhibitions

2005 "Bloom." curated by Jayne H. Baum Gallery, at Bloom in Sag Harbor, New York
2005 “Fresh Cut,” Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2005 “Native Flora,” South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, Massachusetts
2004 “Group Show,” Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, New York
2002 “5th Annual International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition,” Horticultural Society of New York, NYC
2002 “Visions of Nature,” Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College
2002 “Focus on Nature VII,” New York State Museum, Albany NY
2001 “Solanaceae,” Brooklyn Botanical Garden, NYC
2001 “4th Annual International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition,” Horticultural Society of New York, NYC
2001 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators National Exhibit,
Wendell Gilley Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine
2001 “Nature and Wildlife,” Fulton Street Gallery, Troy NY
2000 “Oceanos: Illustrating Marine Life,” Sagres, Portugal
2000 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators National Exhibit, Evora, Portugal
2000 “Focus on Nature VI,” New York State Museum, Albany NY
1999 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators National Exhibit, Richland WA
Residencies and commissions
2005 Residency, Marfa Studio of the Arts, Marfa, Texas
2004 Public Art Mural commission, Marfa Studio of the Arts, Marfa, Texas
2003 Residency, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine
2002 Residency, COMENART/Huyck Preserve, Rennselierville, New York
 


Education

New York Botanical Garden, Certificate Program; courses include Drawing, Pen and Ink, Plant Morphology, and the Art of Illustration.

Professional Affiliations

Member, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society
American Society of Botanical Artists
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators

 

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