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EXHIBITIONS AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS All work is of ceramic sculpture unless noted. INDIVIDUAL 3/8/06 - 3/11/06 STUDIO 21, Portland, Oregon In conjunction with NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts) Vajras and Spiceboxes 8/05, 10/05, 12/05, 02/06 -- images of ceramic Judaica, "Spice Box"endpage, Moment Magazine: Jewish politics, culture & religion for the 21st century 8/03 - 10/03 WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY AT VANCOVER, LIBRARY Beyond Borders 9/01 - 11/01 OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM, Portland, Oregon Manifestations ofthe Divine 2/99 SACRED CIRCLE STUDIO, Portland, Oregon Stupas and Spiceboxes 5/96 - 6/96 INTERSTATE FIREHOUSE CULTURAL CENTER, Portland, Oregon From Pol Pot to Free Elections: photographs, poetry, memorabilia, ceramic sculpture relating to Cambodia FEATURED Scheduled 3/06 MARGHITTA FELDMAN GALLERY, Portland, Oregon Exhibition with Ronna Neuenschwander and Ingrid Hendrix. Gallery closed 6/30/05. 2/86 STARR GALLERY, Leventhal-Sidman Community Center, Newton, MA Work displayed with two other clay sculptors and a textile artist GROUP Scheduled 12/05 MARGHITTA FELDMAN GALLERY, Portland, Oregon Exhibit of Newly Represented Artists. Gallery closed 6/30/05. 12/04 - 4/05 OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM, Portland, Oregon Tzedakah Boxes 3/03 OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM, Portland, Oregon Exhibition and Auction 5/01 - 6/01 INTERSTATE FIREHOUSE CULTURAL CENTER, Portland, Oregon Show of I.F.C.C. Artists 4/01- 6/01 OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM, Portland, Oregon 2/00 Women's Judaica -- "Miriam's Cup" -- permanent collection 10/99 SANCTUARY FOR THE ARTS, Portland, Oregon The Scared Art of Dying 11/98 MOUNT ANGEL ABBEY LIBRARY ART GALLERY, Mount Angel, Oregon Images of Faith 12/91 INTERFACE GALLERY, Newton, Massachusetts 11/91 - 12/91 MILLS GALLERY, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts 9/91 NEWTON ARTS CENTER Artists in Social Work: A Juried Exhibition 11/90 - 2/91 MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER 11/90 - 12/90 MILLS GALLERY 12/88 PALLAS ATHENE, Brookline, Massachusetts 5/88 ZEFAT CRAFTS GALLERY, Zefat, Israel 5/87 MODESTINO GALLERY, Cambridge, Massachusetts 9/85 BOSTON VISUAL ARTISTS' UNION, Boston, Massachusetts 6/85 MAINSTREET GALLERY, Nantucket, Massachusetts 3/84 SOCIETY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, Boston, Massachusetts 3/83 OAK RIDGE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT GALLERY, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 8/81 TEN ARROW GALLERY, Cambridge, Massachusetts 6/81 200 EAST GALLERY, Knoxville, Tennessee PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & HONORS 2000 – 2005 Member of the Selection Committee for the Visual Chronicle of Portland, - a city-owned collection of works on paper relating to Portland 1998 - Roster artist (poetry) Oregon's Regional Arts & Culture Council's Neighborhood Arts Program 1996 - Roster artist (poetry) Oregon's Regional Arts & Culture Council's Arts-In- Education Program 1985 - Visual Arts and Literature, Artist-in-the-Schools Program, Massachusetts Institute for the Arts EDUCATION 9/81 - 6/ 83 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE, Masters of Science in Social Work 9/75 - 12/76 BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S PROGRAM IN ARTISANRY, Specialization: Ceramics 6/73 B.A., EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE, New York, New York Majored in creative writing and fine art 6/71 - 12/71 NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, Halifax, NS |
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In my clay sculpture, I explore how the “invented world” of artmaking gives meaning to lived experience. My clay sculpture is intimate, low-fired, underglazed, lustered, sequined, decaled, and painted, and needs to be viewed up close to best observe the intricate patterning. The pieces are thrown or hand-built. Sometimes I combine both techniques. I have been intrigued with the diorama since childhood and the worlds within. My process over the last twenty years has been to build landscapes of the dreaming mind, and to reinvision ritual objects and sacred spaces that celebrate the divine. In my interpretation ofJudaica, the visual expression of my cultural and spiritual background, I have created sculptures utilizing the formal elements of the spicebox or the torah pointer, for example, that are unmoored to the rituals for which they were designed, and at the same time embody their sacredness. I am also a Buddhist practitioner in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition My current series of wall pieces are reinterpretation of vajras or thunderbolts - symbols of the indestructible nature of truth. They are conceived in relationship to brick-like ceremonial burial mounds. My work has been influenced by the surrealists and the dadaists who were both painters and poets, like Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters, and contemporary pioneers in the clay funk tradition, like Robert Arneson. Richard Shaw, Viola Fry and Patti Warashina. I am presently working on a series entitled “Invisible Cities,” in which train tracks descend on a 90 degree angle, scissors dominate a town, oversized tooth zippers take over in another, and an over-stuffed chair sits in the middle of a brazenly lush landscape. In addition, I have always been a traveler. Living overseas in the Middle East and southeast Asia, has inspired me to find my own way into the visual cultures of those regions. Pagoda complexes are comprised of many buildings, but it was the hundreds of glittering stupas of Rangoon, Burma that caught my eye. Their sacred towers became the inspiration for a series of intimate brightly colored glittering stupas. Also, as a poet, photographer, and a psychotherapist, I am a frequent visitor to the dream life and its sister the creative process, both of whom show me rivers of expression to follow. |
