Resume

Art Education

  • | 1968 - 1971 | The Art Student’s League in New York: scholarship
    Studied with Robert Beverly Hale, Will Barnett and Raymond Everett Kinstler (drawing chosen for catalogue)
  • | 1970 | Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan Me.: scholarship
    Studied with Jacob Lawrence and Gabriel Laderman
  • | 1970 | Studied animal (tiger) movement and anatomy at Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus

Selected Shows

  • | 2005 | Keyes Gallery, Springfield, Missouri
  • | 2003 | Limner Gallery: New York
  • | 2002 | Albanian American Women’s Organization: New York
  • | 1995 | Hoorn -Ashby Gallery: New York and Nantucket
  • | 1984 | Bowery Gallery: New York
  • | 1969 | Bartholet Gallery: New York

Portraits In private collections including:

  • Tina and Peter Zizzo
  • Michael and Elizabeth Scafidi
  • Kim Scadero

Published Works

  • | 1986 | Authored Self Portrait with Wings, a novel
  • | 1972-1978 | Authored Gentle Gorilla: the Story of Patty Cake with drawings portraying the familial life of the gorillas
  • | 1968 | Illustrations for The White Canary, by Caleb Gattegno

Additional Projects

Narrative paintings on fabric, commissioned In private collections including:

  • | 2001 | Michael and Elizabeth Scafidi
  • | 1980-1993 | Jesse McNabb, Associate Curator of European Design at the Metropolitan Museum: New York City
  • Margo and Jeffrey Beck (for Katherine Louise Beck)
  • Wendy Levey, Rebecca ArLynn Marks

Hebrew Celebratory Illuminations, 2001-2003, In private collections, including:

  • Rabbi Felicia Sol
  • Dr. Anita Katz
  • Hannah Archibald
  • Katherine and Scott Cynammon
  • Hadassah Weiner

Hand painted Fabrics, 1983-1990

Painted unique fabrics for New York interior designers including Kevin MacNamarra. Work appeared in House and Garden (named as one of the best fabric painters in New York), Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, and were showcased in the Kipps Bay Show House in New York and Show House in South Hampton, Long Island, New York. In collections of Saul Steinberg and Interior Designer, Harry Hinson, among others.

Memberships

  • New York Artists Circle
  • Salamagundi Club
  • Portrait Society of America
  • Transparent Water Color Society
  • American Watercolor Society