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Photo: Ellen Warner

Biography

Education:

  • Art Students League, 1980-89
  • National Academy of Design, 1987-89
  • Mount Holyoke College, AB 1980
  • Goldsmith College - University of London, 1979

Shows:

2006 Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
"Seeds of Peace," Invitational

2006 Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
"Trash" Invitational.

2006 VSA arts of Colorado,  Denver
"Divided Portraits: Identity and Disability"

2005 Denver Central Library - Denver, Colorado
"Divided Portraits: Identity and Disability"

2004 Chashama - New York, New York
Divided Portraits Presented as part of the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas, a citywide cultural festival designed to inspire, instigate and support civic engagement

2004 HERE Arts Center - New York, New York
"Divided Portraits"

2004 Anne Loucks Gallery - Chicago, Illinois
Still Life Now

1999 O. Kelley Anderson Fine Arts - New York, New York Solo Show
        "Portraits: New Yorkers and Others."

1998 Long Beach Foundation for the Arts - Loveladies, New Jersey.
        "Face and Figure; The Human Image"

1997-99 Wingspread Gallery - Northeast Harbor, Maine
        Summer Invitational

1995 Elaine Benson Gallery - Bridgehampton, New York
        "God's Green Acre"

1994 Susan Duval Gallery - Aspen, Colorado
        "Realism in Perspective"

1993 Aspen Art Museum - Aspen, Colorado
        "Roaring Fork Affists"

1993 The Gallery Three Zero - New York, New York
        "People 11"

1992 The Paris Review - New York, New York
        Solo Portraits and Landscapes

1992 Elaine Benson Gallery - Bridgehampton, New York
        "New Generation"

1992 Vered Gallery - Easthampton, New York
        Winter Group Exhibition

1991 RealArt Gallery - New York, New York
        Three Person

1990 Canio Gallery - Sag Harbor, New York
        Solo

1989 RealArt Gallery - New York, New York
        Two Person

1989 RealArt Gallery - New York, New York
        Summer Invitational Show

1989 Society of Illustrators - New York, New York
        Group Exhibition

1987 Watermill Museum - Long Island, New York
        Group Show - "20 Under 30"

Selected Commissioned Portraits:

  • Mayor Edward I. Koch
  • Peter Mattheissen
  • Jill Isles Blanchard
  • Erica Jong
  • Katrina Cary
  • Troland S. Link
  • George Plimpton
  • Jennifer Davis Rauch
  • Kimberly Rockefeller
  • The Hon. Sarah Sackville-West
  • James Salter/Kay Eldredge
  • Patricia Hearst Shaw
  • Whitney Tower

Collections:

  • Museum of the City of New York
  • Art Students League - Permanent Collection

Editorial:

  • New Yorker: April 14, 1989, Portrait of Louisa Chase.
  • Countryside September/October 1992: Portrait of Jennifer Rauch.
  • New York: July 18, 1994, Portrait of Erica Jong.
  • Aspen Magazine: December 1994.
  • "Art News: Faces Immortal."

Teaching:

  • Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen Colorado
  • Instructor, 1997, "Painting People"
  • Instructor, 1998, "The Head in Watercolor"