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Bio - 2025 Growing up near New York City in the 1960s and 70s, I was moved by the bold gestural compositions and the seeming spontaneity in the work of the abstract expressionists. My parents subscribed to Look and Life magazines which consistently featured articles about contemporary art. There I found Alexander Calder’s mobiles and painted airplanes; the work of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock along with many abstract expressionists. I became fascinated by the simplified compositions and color juxtapositions of the post impressionists, most notably the collages of Romare Bearden. Art seemed to be everywhere; in advertising, on the sides of buses, billboards, newspapers; it seemed important. My class field trips were to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. The bold colors, rhythms and subject matter I attempt to express in my artwork are due to these early influences. After leaving the tri-state area for college, I married, worked in television and radio, moved to Cleveland in the late 1980’s and became a mom to two boys. In my 30’s I took a class entitled “Moving Toward Abstraction” at my local art center instructed by well-known Cleveland artist Margaret Arthur whose influence lives inside me still. Soon after, I began taking night and Saturday community college and Cleveland Institute of Art basic art courses before pursuing an art degree at Cleveland State University. In later years I worked at Suncrest Gardens as a garden designer; which is art in the of arrangement of plants and applies all the principles of design. I also worked as program manager at Cleveland Botanical Garden. My education includes a BA in English Literature from the University of Delaware and a degree in Art/Studio Art from Cleveland State University which I completed at the age of 44. My personal life as with everyone’s has had many ups and down. Divorced at the time my children where entering college, I struggled to keep a semblance of home life for my family. Remarried now to a brilliant and supportive man our combined family consists of five children and nine grandchildren.
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