About the artist
I live in the Catskill mountains with two rescue dogs. I began my career as a figurative sculptor—in marble, of all things—in the early ’70’s, when conceptual art was at its peak. Paula Cooper, of the eponymously named gallery, and a major proponent of conceptual art, came to my studio with an art collector in tow and sold him one of my nudes. After I’d produced more than a dozen pieces in marble, I wanted to work faster, and so I began to create larger-than-life-sized figures in plaster and taught myself to cast in concrete. In 1986 I had my first exhibition—a solo show at the Sutton Gallery on East Fifty-Seventh Street.
LOSING ART, a memoir.
Art and I were both trapped in broken marriages, the parents of two young children, each. Over more than four years of platonic walks along the lesser known bay beaches of East Hampton NY, we became friends, good friends, better friends, sitting as close as any two people could without touching—until desire blindsided us, and we were willing to give up everything just to be together. Once we found the courage to love, our world came apart. In a last-ditch effort to save our floundering business and ourselves, we left our four adolescents with their other parents and moved upstate to Catskill—the county seat of depression.
Voices of the Sea, a dream series, published in 2024 by Querencia Press, combines pastel and charcoal drawings with free verse: two interlocking stories that fully intersect only at the very end. The drawings depict a nuclear family who find themselves in a garden of living sculptures, hunted by a satanic mansion owner, traveling through light and surreal landscapes until a mist threatens to devour them. Woven throughout is the description of our desperate search for solid land as the currents toss us and tease us.
Currently, I'm working on MINUS ONE, a dark, multi-generational novel told from the shifting points of view of three damaged, self-loathing, alcoholic/drug-addicted mothers.