Artist Statement

I’m a figurative and portrait artist — relying upon photography, drawing, printmaking, and painting — in different ways and at different times — to investigate, deconstruct, and rebuild the human form.  

My photography practice explores human emotion in black and white, and in alternative processes combining transfer image, solar plate etching, and monotype. Three recent black and white documentary photography series include: “Evidence of the Ocean,” “Born Enigmatic: My Sister’s Schizophrenia,” and “Cumberland Island.” 

My work with former political prisoners culminated in “Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience,” exhibited at Harvard’s Fogg Museum.  

I belong to Mixit Printmaking Studio in Somerville, MA, where I use the French Tool press to explore these combinations and recombinations. Being open to the unpredictability, false starts, and accidents connected to image-making allows for beauty to emerge. 

I’m also a fiction writer.  My debut novel, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, (Regal House 2022) was named by Kirkus Review among the best 100 Indie novels of 2023. It’s another way to tell a story, to record a face, to take a leap into an image not yet fully formed.

I received the 2024 LensCulture Jurors’ Choice award for a portrait, and was finalist for portrait series, and the 2024 and 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award, winner in portrait series and alternative process, and honorable mention for women seen by women and landscape series. My work has been featured in both Shots Magazine and The Hand and has been shown in both solo and group shows at the Danforth Art Museum, Soho Photo Gallery, Fitchburg Art Museum, Cape Cod Museum, ArtsWorcester, Providence Art Gallery, Bromfield Gallery, Galatea Fine Art, Concord Art Association, George Marshall Store Gallery, Site:Brooklyn, Featherstone Gallery, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Attleboro Art Museum, and Cambridge Art Association. I am represented by Galatea Fine Art, Boston.

Image from the 2024 MacDowell Fellowship

Visual Artist CV

Exhibitions & Awards

2024

Soho Photo Gallery, Alternative Process Competition. Juried by Aline Smithson. New York City, NY. November 13 – December 1, 2024. 

Art.Doc Photography Magazine, “The Unobserved.” Online exhibition. October - November, 2024.

Analogforeverzine, "Portraits: Beyond the Exterior." Juried by Polly Gaillard, Program Director at Photo Lucida. Fall 2024. 

Midwest Nice Art, Art as Storytelling. Juried by Aline Smithson. Fall 2024.

Concord Art Association, 25th Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition. Juried by Meg White, Gallery Naga. September 12 – October 20, 2024.

MacDowell Fellow. Peterborough, NH.  Photography. September – October, 2024.

Becoming: The Feminist Image, Photo Series. Juried by Elizabeth Avedon. June 21 - July 14.

SE Photography Center,  The Nude. Juried by Zoe Wiseman. Greensville, SC. Exhibition opens June 7 with a reception 6-8pm, and runs until June 29, 2024.

Cove Street Arts, via Monotype Guild of New England, Making an Impression. Juried Members’ Exhibition. Portland, ME. May 16 – July 13, 2024.

Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 2024 National Prize Show. Juried by Ben Sloate, Director of the MFA in Visual Arts program at Clark University. Cambridge, MA. May 16 – August 1, 2024.

Cove St. Arts, Making an Impression. Portland, Maine. Juried by Elizabeth Jabar. May 16 - July 13, 2024.

Gallery at North Hill, Selected Prints from the Artists of Mixit Print Studio. Needham, MA. April – June, 2024.

Julia Margaret Cameron Award, winner for Women Seen by Women, single image non-professional category.  Winner for “Alternative Processes Series”, non-professional category. Work to be exhibited at Fotonostrom, Barcelona, Spain. December, 2024.

LensCulture, Art Photography Awards, finalist and Jurors’ Choice, “The Two Faces of Carol” series. Selected by Damarice AMAO, Associate Curator, Musée National d'Art Moderne and Centre Pompidou, France. 2024.

Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Members’ Prize Show. Juried by Mike Carroll, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA. Cambridge, MA. February 27 – April 27, 2024.

Galatea Fine Art, New England Collective XIII, Voices and Visions. Juried by Lauren Szumita, Director, Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross. Boston, MA. February 1  – 25, 2024.

Shots Magazine, Two Female Figures, Issue #163. January 2024.

The Hand Magazine, Issue #45. Dryad with Muses. 2024.

2023

Fotonostrom, 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Award Winner, Portrait series. Barcelona, Spain. December 2024.

South East Center for Photography, The Portrait. Juried by Brian Clamp. Greenville, SC. December 1 – December 30, 2023.

Soho Photo Gallery, 2023 Alternative Processes Competition. Judged by Elizabeth Avedon. New York City, NY. November 15 – December 3, 2023.

Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville Prints. Somerville, MA. November 30 – December 30, 2023.

Thayer Academy, Lasting Impressions: The Monotype and Monoprint. Braintree, MA. October 6  – November 18, 2023.

Concord Art Association, 24th Annual Frances N. Roddy Open Competition. Concord, MA. September 14 - October 22, 2023.

The Mosesian Center for the Arts, In-Depth: A Life in Photographs. Watertown, MA. September 15 – November 5, 2023.

Chilmark Public Library, Solo Show. Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard. June 3 – June 22, 2023. 

Union of Maine Visual Artists, Spring Exhibition. Portland, Maine. April 3 – 28, 2023.

Fitchburg Art Museum, Impact: A Members' Exhibition. Fitchburg, MA. February 25 – April 8, 2023.

Concord Art Association, Members Juried 2. Concord, MA. February 23 – March 23, 2023.

Galatea Fine Art,  Solo Show, Double Vision. Boston, MA. February 3– 26, 2023.

2022

Danforth Art Museum, National Juried Exhibition. Framingham, MA. June 25 – September 18, 2022.

Cambridge Art Association, National Prize Show 2. Cambridge, MA. July 5 – July 30, 2022.

Attleboro Art Museum, Connectivity. Juried Exhibition. Juried by Craig Bloodgood. Attleboro, MA. June 15 – July 18, 2022.

Site:Brooklyn Gallery, The Figure. Juried Exhibition. Brooklyn, NY.  May 31 – June 28, 2022.

Concord Art Association, Solo exhibition, Double Vision. Concord, MA. June 16 – July 17, 2022.

ArtsWorcester, Material Matters. Worcester, MA. March 17 – April 24, 2022.

Galatea Fine Art, Green Renewal. Curated by Agusta Agustsson. Boston, MA. March 4 - 27, 2022.

Bromfield Gallery, Ardor. Juried Exhibition. Boston, MA. February 2 – 27, 2022.

2021

Bromfield Gallery, “Winter Works” Holiday Sale. Juried Exhibition. Boston, MA. December 1 – 19, 2021.

Belmont Gallery of Art, Nourish. Belmont, MA. October 31 – December 3, 2021.

Monotype Guild of New England at The Rhode Island Watercolor Society, imPRESSIVE. Juried Members’ Exhibit. October 2 – November 5, 2021.

 Gallery. Juried by Adrian Tió. October 2 – November 5, 2021.

Galatea Fine Art, New England Collective XI. Juried by Grace Ryder O’Malley, Chief Operating Officer at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM). Boston, MA. August 6 – 29, 2021.

Bromfield Gallery, Streetwise. Juried Exhibitions. Boston, MA. June 30 – August 1, 2021.

Fitchburg Art Museum, 85th Annual Regional Show. Juried by Marjorie Rawle, Terrana Assistant Curator. Fitchburg, MA. June 26 – September 5, 2021.

Featherstone Center for the Arts, Love It. Protect It. MV. Curated with Vineyard Conservation Society. Oak Bluffs, MA. June 7 – 27, 2021.

The Providence Art Club, National Open Juried Exhibition. Juried by Dr. Jamie Gabbarelli of The Art Institute of Chicago. Providence, RI. May 20 – June 17, 2021.

UMVA Gallery Virtual Exhibition, Love/Rage Goddess. Co-curated by Ann Tracy and Christine Sullivan. May 7- 29, 2021.

Pop-Up, the art house, Organized by Kate Kostopoulos, Owner and Director of Chase Young Gallery. Boston, MA. May 1 – 30, 2021.

Bromfield Gallery Online Exhibition, Double Vision. Juried exhibition. Boston, MA. March 5 – 28, 2021.

Concord Art Association, MJ2. Juried exhibition. Concord, MA. February 25 – March 25, 2021.

Cambridge Art Association, Bodies. Juried exhibition. January 19 – March 19, 2021.

Cape Cod Museum of Art, Changing Tides. Juried exhibition. Cape Cod, MA. December 10, 2020 – March 14, 2021.

2020

Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Mary Schein Fall Salon. Cambridge, MA. September 9 – 30, 2020.

Cambridge Art Association, Transparency. Juried Exhibition. Cambridge, MA. May 4 – 15, 2020.

Gallery 263, Touchy Feely. Juried Exhibition. Cambridge, MA. March 1 – May, 2020.

Concord Art Association, Members Juried 2. Juried Exhibition. Concord, MA. February 20 – March 20, 2020. 

Concord Art Association, Members Juried 1, Painting and Sculpture. Juried Exhibition. Concord, MA. January 16 – February 9, 2020. 

Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Broken Beauty. Cambridge, MA. January 7 – February 1, 2020.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Reflections, The Figure and Portrait in Watercolor. Juried Exhibition. Cambridge, MA. January 9 – March 19, 2020.

2019

Concord Art Association, 20th Annual Frances N. Roddy Open Competition. Juried Exhibition, Concord, MA. September 12 – October 18, 2019.

Concord Art Association, Student-Teacher Show. Concord, MA. July 11 – August 11, 2019.

2018

Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Studies and Sketches, a Drawing Exhibition. Cambridge, MA. September 6 – November 29, 2018.

1990

Fogg Museum, Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience. 15 silver gelatin photographs with captions. Cambridge, MA. 1990.

Tufts University, Wessell Library, Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience. 15 silver gelatin photographs with captions. Boston, MA. 1990.

The French Library, Putting Faces on the Unimaginable: Portraits and Interviews with Former Prisoners of Conscience. 15 silver gelatin photographs with captions. Boston, MA. 1990.

Education

Brown University, A.B.

Stanford University, A.M., Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing