Creating art has always been part of my world. Most recently, collage making has me curious, focused, and productive. My process—creating and assembling monoprints, painted papers, photographs, assortments of materials, and adding marks using acrylic, encaustic, gouache, graphite, ink, or markers—has become a perfect way to express ideas about memory fragments, visual patterns, and learned or retained gestures. While abstract, these collages draw from history, news events, landscapes, or emotions.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, I lived in Brooklyn and NYC, while attending Pratt Institute where I studied painting. At the time, I emulated and admired the Conceptualists and the Minimalists—Douglas Huebler, Hans Haacke, Martha Rosler, Eva Hesse, and Ad Reinhart.  Rudolf Baranik and Mary Buckley—two professors at Pratt—had a profound influence on my life and my thinking.

I continued working in NYC for a while after graduating college and my work became more archival. Then, in 1984, I moved to Washington DC. Over the next many years, life took some ups and downs and dramatic turns but I remained tethered to my art making—continuing my independent studies through various courses and workshops at the American University, Pyramid Atlantic, Washington Studio School, and the Women’s Studio Workshop. In 2010, I earned a master’s degree in art history from American University. I served as Head of the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine from 1996-2022.

Currently, I live and work in Washington DC.