Exhibitions

Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University College of Art and Design                   (2017)

  • Exhibition at Spotlight Gallery

b. j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY                                                                                        (2016)

  • EXPO 35 group exhibition (one of 17 artists selected from among

    289 entries for annual competition)

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA                                                                (2011)

  • Solo exhibition

First Thursday Art Stroll, Jamaica Plain, MA                                                                  (2010)

  • Solo exhibition at offices of Prudential Realty

The Center for the Arts, Natick, MA                                                                                     (2004)

  • Group exhibition

Upstairs at Johnson Art Gallery, Boston, MA                                                                 (2002)

  • Group exhibition

Street Theater, Seattle, WA                                                                                                       (1988)

  • Performance art projects on themes including “Petitioning for

       preservation of an ‘architecturally significant’ Kentucky Fried

        Chicken restaurant”.

Ithaca Festival, Ithaca, NY                                                                                                          (1980-1986)

  • Performance art projects on themes including “American Culture”,

        “The Art and Culture of Leishmania”, sale of organically grown

         firewood at farmers’ market, sale and craft demonstration of making

         paperclips by hand, culturing flies to make processed cheese,

         “The Human Zoo”.

 

Lectures, Presentations

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA                                                                  (2011)

  • Invited participant in “Text and Context” series: appeared with painter

       Jim Kennedy in pairing of two painters to discuss their respective

        approaches to abstraction (included slide show of paintings).

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA                                                                  (2009)                                                

  • Invited participant in “Text and Context” series: appeared with 

        novelist Mako Yoshikawa in pairing of visual artists and novelists to 

        discuss craft and the creative process (included slide show of paintings).

 

Grants, Awards

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT                                                                                        (2010)

  • Competitive Artist Award grant in support of residency at

       Vermont Studio Center

 

Bibliography

  • Selected images, Artist Profile, Studio Visit Magazine, Summer 2020,
    vols. 47&48 (2021)                                                                                                            
  • “Repeated Measures”,   Reproduction of painting on cover, 
      Free Speech in the Digital Age,  S. Brison and K. Gelber, Eds., 
      Oxford University Press                                                                                                             (2019)
  • Selected images, Artist Profile, “Thought Provokers” Series, 
    Boston Voyager                                                                                                                                  (2018)

  • “Aqqr”, Reproduction of painting on cover, Ploughshares quarterly                   (2008)

  • “The Typography of Recollection”, Reproduction of painting on cover,

    Ploughshares quarterly                                                                                                                   (2002)

 

Related Experience

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT                                                                                              (2011)

  • Residency

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT                                                                                               (2006)

  • Residency

Sea Raven Pottery, Rockport, MA                                                                                                       (1978)

  • Production potter

 

Education

  • Coursework                                        painting                                                                              MFA Museum School

  • Coursework                                        drawing, painting, color theory                             DeCordova Museum

  • Ph.D.                                                        Mathematical Ecology                                               Cornell University

  • M.A.                                                         Marine Ecology                                                               Boston Univ. Marine Program

  • B.S.                                                             Art, Biology (double major)                                   Antioch College   

Exhibitions

Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University College of Art and Design                   (2017)

  • Exhibition at Spotlight Gallery

b. j. spoke gallery, Huntington, NY                    (2016)

  • EXPO 35 group exhibition (one of 17 artists selected from among 289 entries for annual competition)

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA           (2011)

  • Solo exhibition

First Thursday Art Stroll, Jamaica Plain, MA             (2010)

  • Solo exhibition at offices of Prudential Realty

The Center for the Arts, Natick, MA                               (2004)

  • Group exhibition

Upstairs at Johnson Art Gallery, Boston, MA                 (2002)

  • Group exhibition

Street Theater, Seattle, WA                          (1988)

  • Performance art projects on themes including “Petitioning for preservation of an ‘architecturally significant’ Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant”.

Ithaca Festival, Ithaca, NY                  (1980-1986)

  • Performance art projects on themes including “American Culture”, “The Art and Culture of Leishmania”, sale of organically grown firewood at farmers’ market, sale and craft demonstration of making  paperclips by hand, culturing flies to make processed cheese, “The Human Zoo”.                  

 

Lectures, Presentations

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA                        (2011)

  • Invited participant in “Text and Context” series: appeared with painter Jim Kennedy in pairing of two painters to discuss their respective approaches to abstraction (included slide show of paintings).              

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA                         (2009)

  • Invited participant in “Text and Context” series: appeared with novelist Mako Yoshikawa in pairing of visual artists and novelists to discuss craft and the creative process (included slide show of paintings).

Grants, Awards

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT                             (2010)

  • Competitive Artist Award grant in support of residency at Vermont Studio Center

 

Bibliography

  • Selected images, Artist Profile, “Thought Provokers” Series, Boston Voyager       (2018)                                  

  • “Kyrielle #2”, Reproduction of painting on cover, S. Brison and K. Gelber,  Free Speech in the Digital Age, Oxford University Press      (In press, 2018)

  • “Aqqr”, Reproduction of painting on cover, Ploughshares quarterly                    (2008)

  • “The Typography of Recollection”, Reproduction of painting on cover, Ploughshares quarterly    (2002)         

 

Related Experience

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT                        (2011)

  • Residency

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT                         (2006)

  • Residency

Sea Raven Pottery, Rockport, MA                                   (1978)

  • Production potter

 

Education

  • Coursework                painting                   MFA Museum School

  • Coursework                drawing, painting, color theory                  DeCordova Museum

  • Ph.D.                   Mathematical Ecology               Cornell University

  • M.A.                     Marine Ecology              Boston Univ. Marine Program

  • B.S.                         Art, Biology (double major)         Antioch College