Description
53rd Annual Mark Twain Library Art Show
Artist’s Bio:
Born in Manhattan. Resident of Connecticut since 1972.
As my father did, I was drawing and painting wherever I went. My first art class was after school, at age 9, working in terra cotta sculpture with Louise Nevelson.
Through the years I experimented with many media and a variety of genres. Silvermine Guild of Artists was a year-round must for me. I used charcoal for live figure drawing of clothed and nude models, drew from a skeleton for the study of anatomy with Dr. John Poole; learned to capture “the gesture” from models with Marshall Davis, improved my watercolor technique with Ann Toulmin-Roth, landscape with Robert Baxter, faces and figures with Charles Reed, and still life and landscape in oils, with Kirill Doron. I earned my MFA in Painting at the Western Connecticut State University in 2006. Over the years my work was exhibited widely in the region. Among the juried shows my “Chickens” watercolor won the “People’s Choice Award” from the Weston Commission for the Arts. My work also won The “Best in Show” in oil award from the New Canaan Society for the Arts, and another “Best in Show” for oil from the Stamford Art Association. My work was included in a juried exhibit at the Kershner Gallery in the Fairfield Public Library as well. Recently, my oil painting “Beets” was in the annual juried show of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists.
