I’m a Provincetown-based artist working in painting, photography, mixed media, and quilt-making blending personal memory with formal experimentation. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at the Art Students League in the late ’70s into the mid-’80s. Eventually, I earned my BFA from the College of Santa Fe. I’ve always been drawn to artists like Rothko and Jasper Johns, not necessarily as direct influences, but because of how they worked with layers and presence. That idea of layering of memory, color, shape is at the core of what I do.
Since 2014, I’ve lived and worked at the Foley House in Provincetown, which is a congregate living space for folks living with HIV or AIDS. My room is a sewing space, a painting studio, and a bedroom all in one. It’s where I make everything from mixed-media works to quilts and no two pieces ever feel quite finished. That’s part of the process.
In 2021, I had a solo show of my quilts at the Provincetown Commons. I’m represented by Gallery 411, and over the years I’ve also shown paintings, worked in galleries, cleaned houses, and sold ferry tickets all of which is part of the same creative life. These days, I spend mornings taking photos by the waterfront near St. Mary’s before the town gets too busy. I think of it as a moment of meditation a quiet time to see clearly before I get back to the work.
