EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND

 

- Currently teaching painting and drawing from Home Studio via Zoom.

​- Freelance: Painting and Photography Instructor, Judge, Demonstrator, Presenter

- Freelance Graphic Designer

- Advertising Agency Art Director, Creative Director, Long Island and New Jersey

- Junior High School and Middle School Art Teacher, NYC Public Schools 28 yrs.

- Art Director, Graphics USA Magazine

 

 

SOLO SHOWS

 

- Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY

- Daniel Gale/Sotheby’s Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY

- Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY

- Agora Gallery, SOHO, NY

- Unitarian Universalist Congregation Galleries:  3 Long Island locations

- Public Libraries: 12 locations

 

 

GROUP SHOWS

 

- Flushing Town Hall , Queens, NY- painting and photography

- Heckscher Museum, Huntington, LI- painting

- Hudson Valley Art Association, Lyme, CT and NYC's Salamagundi Club- painting

- JeanieTengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY-multiple exhibits in painting & photography

- Barnes Gallery, Garden City, NY- multiple painting and photography shows

- Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY- photography

- African American Museum, Hempstead, NY- photography

- Sands Point Preserve, NY- photography

- CW Post Gallery, Brookville, NY- painting

- Molloy College Gallery, Rockville Centre, NY- photography

- National Art League, Douglaston, NY- mulitiple painting, photography, mixed media

- New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY- painting and photography

- Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, NYC- painting

- Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY- drawing, advertising and visual communication

- Queensborough Community College Gallery, Queens, NY- painting

- Sueanne Shirzay Gallery, Island Park, NY- painting and photography

 

 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

 

- New York State Museum, Albany, NY

- Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

- Molloy College, Rockville Centre, NY

- Art Students League, New York, NY

- Public Buildings, Village of Freeport, NY

- Numerous private collections.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

- ARTBLEND. THE ART BOOK 2020

- Artist Magazine

- Artspeak Magazine

- Linea Magazine (Art Students League Magazine Publication)

- Photolife Magazine

- Splash 19; Best in Watercolor: "Illusion of Light" 2019

- Watercolor Magic Magazine : "11 Artists to Watch"

- "Who's Afraid of Essays?"by Marc Newhouse: 70 illustrations

- Paumanok Transitionss 2022 (poetry): 7 photographs

 

 

EDUCATION

 

- 2002 - 2004, 2012 – Present:  

Art Students League of New York, watercolor painting with Irwin Greenberg

and Paul Ching Bor.

- 1987 - 1995:  

Watercolor workshops with Mel Stabin

- 1972 - 1975:  

Pratt Institute, MS in Art Education and Art Therapy 

- 1965 - 1969:  

Pratt Institute, BS in Advertising Design and Visual Communication

 

 

AFFILIATIONS

 

- Long Island Center of Photography: co-president, facilitator of discussions, critiques

- President, Freeport Community Concert Association

- Board Member, Friends of the Freeport Memorial Library; Art Review Board

- National Art League member, workshop presenter

- Art League of Long Island

- Long Beach Art Association member

- Roslyn Village Gallery: exhibitor, art instructor, lecturer

- Long Island Arts Council at Freeport, former board member, exhibition installer

- Hudson Valley Art Association, board member and advisor on watercolors

 

Dates for all citations above will be gladly provided upon request.