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profile article:

PASTEL JOURNAL MAGAZINE  August 2009

exhibit reviews:

New York Times

Art and Antiques

Westchester Gazette

Interview:  Smithy Gallery

Plein Air magazine online:

Painting in the Rain in Ft Tryon Park

Painting Event -Elissa in Bath county      Mountain Maryland Plein Air Event

     I make landscape paintings of real places, usually ones I know well. I paint from observation and memory, striving to express a transcendent moment: when time seems to stand still. Despite it being unfashionable, I try to make my paintings both beautiful and truthful as I can. When traveling to paint “en plein air," I often find life’s most peaceful moments near lakes or streams. Water especially moves me because it’s essential for life. In the face of the impending climate catastrophe, my paintings quietly say: "this is the natural world. Its beautiful. Let's keep it this way.”

     I was trained in Sculpture, Painting and Medical Illustration. Over 20 years of college teaching, I taught almost every course in the fine arts departments of five colleges. Since 1997, I've devoted myself to landscape painting full-time. I’ve had over 15 solo exhibitions. Quite a few of my works are in corporate, health care and private collections. In trips from my home studio in northern Manhattan, I travel to paint in the mountains and near the shore in the northeast US.  I never tire of the search for the holy grail of a spot that moves me, followed by the challenge of representing that experience in a compelling way.