Bio
The Lead-up...
- Throughout my life a continuing thread has existed: transforming visual environments. Elaborate Barbie houses, scrapbooks of landscaped home designs and imaginary Broadway set designs filled my early years.
- My passion for perfecting visual environments became solidly rooted in my professional life at Lord & Taylor's flagship store in Manhattan where I created many themed fashion and home events. Creative interpretations of Nantucket, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Savannah and other American cities allowed me to transpose their unique and rich cultures into successful multi-dimensional promotions & shopping experiences.
- Eventually I returned to my native South Jersey where I planned extravagant and intricate special events at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort. Again, I transformed empty spaces at various venues to create all-encompassing themed events, parties and promotions for high rollers, trade groups and private clients. Conceiving, directing, and realizing events and environments of the highest magnitude was yet another expression of my childhood dreams.
- Today, I am creating art most days and loving it! Conceptualizing, drawing, painting, learning new techniques, trying new mediums fill my days and nights.
Artistic Intentions
- My blank canvases are filled with different visual environments. Some are merely scenes, imagined or real, with vantage points, subject matter and textures that I am drawn to and are compelled to depict
- Some are more abstract, re-imaginings of elements resulting in new environments that I feel must exist together. I am inspired by architectural elements, patterns in nature, the juxtaposition of shapes and shadows, along with repetitive design elements.
- Awards:
- 2023 Second Place-Ocean City Arts Center Annual Juried Show
- 2019 Third Place –Atlantic County Senior Citizen Art Show
- 2018 Honorable Mention - Ocean City Arts Center Annual Juried Show
- 2018 Honorable Mention - Ocean City Fine Arts League Jersey Shore Show
Galleries:
- Ocean City Arts Center Gallery, Ocean City, NJ Board of Trustees Member
- Nashville North Studios – Linwood, NJ
- Ocean City Fine Arts League – Ocean City, NJ
Career:
- 2017- Now Fine Artist
- 1992-2016 Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, NJ – Director of Special Events & Conventions/Catering
- 1978-1989 Lord & Taylor, NY –Special Projects; Public Relations -Fashion Promotion Associate
Education:
- 2022 Making Art Work - Emily Jeffords
- 2020 Surface Pattern Design Academy-Anne LaFolette
- 2016-17 The Career Center, NY – Adobe Suite Classes
- 1978-84 Parsons School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, New York University, NY- Art, Design, Fashion and Film classes
- 1974-77 Montclair University, NJ – BA Fine Arts, Painting
- Studied under Carmen Cicero, acclaimed abstract expressionist artist
- 1973-74 Fordham University at Lincoln Center, NY – Theatre Arts