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

       2025   Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum

       2024.  Where Photography Meets Collage, New Orleans Photo Alliance

       2022.  Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum

       2019   Barrister’s Gallery, solo show, Living Life Backwards

       2017   Contemporary Arts Center, Ephemera Obscura

       2017   Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum

       2016   Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum

• 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

 

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