Bio

MEDIA

Current

• Painting

• Mixed Media

Previous

• Art car painting

• Mosaics

• Concrete sculpture with ceramic appendages

• Small boxes with mixed media

• Found furniture encrusted with paint and adhered objects

• Etching

• Lithography

 

EDUCATION

• 1978-1980

  • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; study in lithography with Garo Z. Antresian

• 1974-1978

  • Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois; B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking

• 1971-1974

  • University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; study in Liberal Arts and Drawing

• 1967-1970

  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; study in Liberal Arts

 

DECADE SUMMARIES

• 2010- 2015    

  • Art car painting, mural painting, mosaics and photo collage.

• 2000-2010 

  • Work in art car painting, mural painting for commercial buildings, mosaics, glass bead making, photography, collage and drawing.  Teaching art at St. Gerard Majella Alternative School, New Orleans.

• 1990-2000 

  • Residence in New Orleans, LA.  Part-time teaching of art to elementary school students.  Work in theatre sets and backdrops, clay and concrete sculpture, and photography.

• 1980-1990

  • Residence in San Francisco, CA.   Work in lithography, concrete sculptures, concrete furniture, furniture embedded with small objects, large and small boxes containing biographical scenes, and photography.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2015 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum

• 2015 Barrister’s Gallery, solo show, Never Enough

• 2014 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum

• 2014 Contemporary Arts Center, Mark of the Feminine

• 2013  Barrister’s Gallery, Her Infinite Variety

• 2012  Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA

• 2011  Automata, Old Ironworks, New Orleans, LA

• 2010  Antenna Gallery, group show

• 2010  9th Annual New Orleans Book Fair, New Orleans, LA

• 2010   Barrister’s Gallery, Like a Prayer-Reflections of the 21stC Feminine

• 2010   9th Annual New Orleans Book Fair

• 2009   Houston Art Car Parade, Houston, TX

• 2008   7th Annual New Orleans Book Fair, New Orleans, LA

• 2004   Houston Art Car Parade, Houston, TX, 2nd place in Painted Car Category

• 2002   New Orleans Museum of Art, Art Car Festival in conjunction with presentations by Harrod Blank

• 1987 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California

• 1987 Forma, San Francisco, California

• 1986 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California

• 1986 Prototype Project, DNA Lounge and Forma, San Francisco, CA

• 1983 Colorprint U.S.A., Lubbock, Texas

• 1982 Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, California

• 1982 San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, California

• 1982 First International San Francisco Armory Show, San Francisco, CA

• 1981 San Francisco Arts Festival, San Francisco, California

• 1981 One-person show, Austin Arts, Susanville, California

• 1981 One-person show, Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington

• 1981 Introductions II, Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington

• 1979 Two-person show, Downtown Artists’ Center, Albuquerque, NM

• 1979 Albuquerque United Artists, Albuquerque, New Mexico

• 1978 Armory Show, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico

• 1977 Artemesia Fund, Chicago, Illinois

• 1977 Artists’ Guild of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

• 1977 One-person show, Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois

 

CURRENT GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA