Biography

 I was born in 1943 in New York City and raised in Northampton Massachusetts. Both my parents were artists and art educators. My father chaired the Art Department at Smith College and later at C.C.N.Y. I was drawing and painting at an early age under the critical guidance of my mother who taught art at the Smith College Day School. I continued my studies at Stockbridge High School, an international, inter-racial, nondenominational, coeducational boarding school in Interlaken, Massachusetts. After graduating from Stockbridge, I attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where I was art editor and illustrator for the student newspaper. During college I was a student activist and participated in the Civil Rights movement. I worked on campus in the art slide library and in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery. During the summer I worked in Provincetown Massachusetts at the East End Gallery and various other jobs.

I graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1965 and later attended Columbia School of the Arts. In 1966, I traveled in Europe and returned to the United States, finding a job at the publishing company, Appleton-Century-Crofts. During the 60’s and 70’s I exhibited my work, principally drawings, in Miami Florida as well as New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. I was also a partner in a picture framing business, taught school and worked in market research.

  Following a move to Virginia in 1976, I worked for American Medical Laboratories. In 1983 I began studying for my Juris Doctor’s degree at George Mason University School of Law, evening program, graduated and passed the Bar Exam in 1987. I practiced law in Fairfax Virginia first as a sole practitioner and then in a partnership.

In September 1997 I closed my practice and returned to a career in the visual arts, I studied drawing and painting at The Corcoran School of Art and printmaking at the Provincetown Art League and Alexandria Art League. Since embarking on my new career, I have had several one-person exhibitions. I have been a member of the Fairfax Art League, Alexandria Art League and Rehoboth Art League. I have had pieces juried into many exhibitions including the Corcoran School of Art Alumni exhibition, the Art League at the Torpedo Factory and the Reston Art League show at the Ernst Cultural Center of Northern Virginia Community College. My principal mediums are etching and monotypes though I have painted in the past and create an occasional sculpture. I am currently represented by Washington Printmakers Gallery in Silver Spring, Maryland, a gallery that specializes in fine art, hand pulled original prints.