For twelve years I lived in the woods of New Hampshire and Vermont reworking one hundred paintings. Each was a portrait painted from memory. I placed each canvas on my easel one after another, painting it over and over. When I was nine I moved to Ghana. After visiting 23 countries in the following four years I had a storehouse of images, but had forgotten my home.

In 1984 I threw most of those paintings away, and moved to Boston. I synthesized my past into daydreams by combining isolated memories of foreign lands with fantasy narratives.

I received my MFA in painting in 1991.

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The War That Made America, 2006

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Production Credits

2000-2006

Percy Julian NOVA (2007) Art Director
Desperate Crossing: the Untold Story of the Mayflower The History Channel (2006) Production Design
FETCH PBS (2006) Set Design
The War That Made America PBS (2006) Production Design
John and Abigail Adams The American Experience (2006)Production Design
They Made America (Episode 1) The American Experience (2004) Art Director
Witch Hunt The History Channel (2004) Production Design
The Most Dangerous Woman in America NOVA (2003) Production Design
Reconstruction The American Experience (2003) Art Director
Ulysses S. Grant The American Experience (2003) Art Director
The History of Chicago The American Experience (2003)Art Director
Murder at Harvard The American Experience (2002) Production Design
John Dillinger The American Experience (2001) Production Design

1995-2000

Southie Unsolved Mysteries Art Director
Bee Sting Healing Unsolved Mysteries Art Director
Boston Healer Unsolved Mysteries Art Director
Houdini The American Experience Art Director
Biography of James Eads The American Experience Art Director
The Rockefellers The American Experience Art Director
Rescue at Sea The American Experience Production Design
A Science Odyssey: Matters of Life and Death PBS special
Building Big: Domes PBS special
The Scarlet Letter Discovery Channel Great Book Series Art Director
Into the Woods, Emery’s Last Stand Unsolved Mysteries Wardrobe Assistant
The Natural History of the Senses, “Smell” NOVA Art Department PA
The Natural History of the Senses, “Taste” NOVA Food Design

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Pears, Orange, and Brick Mill

My painted stories explore a pervasive dilemma of the contemporary world: the dissociation of people from one another and from the past. My characters see the world through mirrors, boxes without backs, or windows. I use masks, toys, or games to invent visual narratives. I bend perspective, and distort light and color to combine the "home" of daily living with the "other world" of memory.

Stylistically and technically, my work revels in the painted image. By combining the fantastic and the ordinary, the disoriented and the stable, I find the foreign and the familiar can coexist. I use the sensuousness of the medium to seduce the viewer long enough for my troublesome subject matter to be absorbed. My paintings offer imagery for appreciating today’s disjointed experiences.

Gallaries:

People

Still Life

Selected One Person Shows

2000 Dean’s Gallery, Sloan School, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1999 New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA
1996 Ticknor Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1994 Newton Arts Center, Newtonville, MA

Selected Group Shows

2004 Fire Station Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2003 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2002 Lyman -Eyer Gallery, Newton MA
Watermark Gallery, Port Clyde, ME
2000 New Art Center, Newton, MA
Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Newton, MA
1999 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1997 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1996 Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Ashuah Irving Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama, Boston, MA
MIT, Compton Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

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People
Figures
Town Square Mirror Image Changing Masks Birdsong Iphigenia Twin Mime Strangers
Heads
Anonymous Father Girl in Blue Mask Bride Iphigenia Study Lear 1 Harlequin Mask Mother Poet Night Woods Lear 2 Portrait 2 Looking Over Baron in the Trees Boy in Red Coat Susan Red Earring
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