“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again, since it is life.”
William Faulkner
Artists have the extraordinary opportunity to express their emotions and thoughts in a tangible, visual form. I am grateful to be part of a creative community that values beauty, skill, originality, flexibility and subtlety.
As a printmaker, my favorite time in the studio is the moment when the paper is peeled back from the plate, and I find out what I have captured. 
One of the wonders of this process is that even when I think I know what to expect, the results can surprise me.
Sources of inspiration include artists such as Rembrandt, Matisse, Gauguin, O’Keeffe, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Cartier-Bresson, Avedon and many others. I also get excited about ballet dancers, wild animals, sea creatures, fashion models, foreign coins, Chinese cigarette wrappers, and African textiles.
My artwork is in the permanent collections of The National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Library of Congress, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library and the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University.
Selected Exhibitions
2016: Corinium Museum, Gloucestershire, UK, Impress Printmaking Festival (Manhattan Graphics exchange show)
2015: Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Australia, Wanderlust
2015: Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY, Brave Smiles
2014: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Undone (Exhibit and Portfolio Project)
2014: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Lazarus Prints
2012: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Rip Off (Exhibit and Portfolio Project)
2011: The Siren’s Song Gallery, Greenport, NY, Selections from The 9/11 Portfolio – Prints From the Manhattan
Graphics Center
2011: Otterbein University, Westerville, OH, The 9/11 Portfolio – Prints From the Manhattan Graphics Center
2011: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Coins, Codes & Choreography (Solo Show)
2011: MH Art & Framing Gallery, New York, NY, Union
2011: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Algorithmic Prints
2010: Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY, Close Up
2010: MH Art & Framing Gallery, New York, NY, Floating In the Absence of Reason
2010: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, From Light to Dark
2009: Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, NY, Manhattan Graphics Center Benefit Print Auction
2009: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Text Message
2009: LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, Universal Diversity 2009
2009: Oregon Inkspot, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande OR (Print Exchange)
2009: MH Art & Framing Gallery, New York, NY, Encryptions
2008: Oregon Inkspot, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande OR (Print Exchange)
2008: MH Art & Framing Gallery, New York, NY, Politics
2008: LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, Universal Diversity 2008
2007: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Missing the Sky (Solo Show)
2007: LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, Universal Diversity 2007
2006: The Siren’s Song Gallery, Greenport, NY, Creatures of the Deep and Shallows
2006: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, 20th Anniversary Exhibition (Invitational Show)
2006: Hudson Guild Gallery II, New York, NY, Regarding the Art of Others/Dedicated to Susan Sontag
2006:LGBT Community Center, New York, NY, Universal Diversity 2006
2005: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY 2005 Holiday Show
2004: The Indira Gandhi National Center For The Arts, New Delhi, India,Multiple Expressions
2003: Gallery SK 417, New York, NY, Group Show
2003: The Lobby Gallery, New York, NY, Message from New York (Art Students League invitational show)
2002: Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Witness and Response:September 11th Acquisitions
2002: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, 9/11 (Exhibit and Portfolio Project)
2002: New-York Historical Society, New York, NY, Missing: Streetscape of A City In Mourning
2002: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, September 11: Bearing Witness to History
2002: Umeda Sky Building, Osaka, Japan, Message from New York(Art Students League invitational show)
2002: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY, Prints and Collages (Solo Show)
2002: Exit Art, New York, NY, Reactions
2001: Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY, Extreme Drawing
2001: Center for Contemporary,Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, Monothon
2000: Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT, Paperworks
2000: The Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 20 Artists of Manhattan Graphics
1999: Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
1998: The Art Students League, New York, NY
1997: The Art Students League, New York, NY
Permanent Collections
National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Radio & Television
National Public Radio “All Things Considered” 9/11 Poem
CNN“News Night” 9/11 Poem read by Mary Tyler Moore
The History Channel “Relics from the Rubble” 9/11 survivor collage
Grants
Cornell Council for the Fine ArtsGrant to produce a series of linoleum cut prints of African folktales with Swahili text