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 |
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