About The Artist
My work in the community is in healing, and my passion is in creating art. My medium is clay and mixed media. I receive my inspiration from observation...observation of the city, it’s people and animals, and events around me. I am especially inspired by musicians, political events and familiar things - the human body, animals, and nature.
Art can heal. Visual, movement, and musical art is a shared or private experience that enriches everyone. Whether it’s beautiful or dissonant, it creates conversation. It gives people positive energy and power, or quiet calm and reflection.
Barbara Hessel
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.”
- Henry David Thoreau
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Beyond Mud: Ceramics in 2023 Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2016 12th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 10th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2000 4th
Annual Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition, New York,
NY GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Celebrating Member Artists Past and Present, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Crafting Resistance, Spoke Art Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Painting Out Poverty, Washington, DC 2015 A Crossroads of Medicine, the Arts, History, Humanism and Ethics, Osler Society, Hempstead, NY
2015 Renew, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Imagine This, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
1998 A Project by Those Who Heal, University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, Piscataway, NJ
1998 Newts To Goats & Beyond, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Rutgers University, NJ
M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY
NY Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY