Artist Statement
I was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I grew up at a time when the city was alive with energy and excitement. My childhood idol, Sonora Carver, was the woman who rode the diving horse at Atlantic City’s famed Steel Pier. They were surely my inspiration for the countless drawings of the Steel Pier and diving horses I did as a little girl.
Although I received a formal art education in high school, it wasn’t until I reached my early thirties that I was able to pursue a career as an artist. My professional career began with equine art. My husband and I had a small racing stable based at Hialeah Park in Florida. Visiting this most beautiful of American race tracks in the early morning hours to watch the horses as they galloped around the track fueled my desire to create a series of bronzes celebrating the spirit and athleticism of these magnificent animals. My bronzes depicting the thoroughbred in action were very well-received by the racing community and general public alike. I’m proud to say that for a time in the nineteen- eighties, I was addressed by the racing press as the “Remington of the Racetrack.”
Always on the lookout for new subjects to express my art, I began creating bronze sculptures with birds as the subject. Among my collection of birds are Bald Eagles, Great Blue Herons, Peacock’s, African Bee-Eaters, and Wood Ducks. Today many of the sculptures I created of these marvelous birds may be found on permanent display in a number of public and private collections around the world, from New York to Dubai.
My latest work involves an exploration of the abstract form in bas-relief sculpture. It is a major departure from my earlier, more figurative work but one that I find endlessly fascinating and challenging.
I am honored that my latest work in cast paper is being favorably received by my peers, collectors and the press. I’m very proud to announce that one of my first cast-paper sculptures a loving, tongue-in-cheek tribute to Jackson Pollock “Jack the Dripper” won the 21st Annual A Britain Banghart Award at the Academy Art Museum in Easton,. Maryland
Bio
Corporate and Private Collections
Riverchase Galleria, Birmingham, AL (A pair of Great Blue Herons, 10 feet high)
The Monroe Building, Washington DC (A bronze relief of Pres. James Monroe and his family on Inauguration day, 20 by 6 feet)
Quite Waters Park, Annapolis, MD (Great Blue Herons, 13 feet high)
Westland Mall, Knoxville, TN (Ten Mallards spiraling down for a landing (20 feet high)
East Chase Mall, Montgomery, AL (Life-size figure of Atlas holding a five foot sphere)
Calvert School, Baltimore, MD (A five foot Continental Globe, hanging from the ceiling)
Fala the Scottie, for the FDR Presidential Library at New Hyde Park, NY (Life-size relief sculpture of Fala the Scottie sitting on a bench)
Limited Edition Bronze Sculptures
Point to Point (A steeplechase race)
Suburban Handicap (Forego, Lord Rebeau, and Foolish Pleasure in a photo finish)
Inquiry (Genuine Risk and Codex in the highly controversial 1980 Preakness)
The Starting Gate (Three Horses breaking out of the starting gate)
The Rain Dancer (A horse racing on a muddy track)
Flying Filly (A classic racing filly)
Fly Fishing (An American Bald Eagle pulling a fish out of water)
Angle of Attack (An American Bald Eagle in full flight – life-size)
Blue Rapture (A pair of heron heads)
Blue Elegance (Life-size heron taking off, 7 foot wing-span)
Blinkers On (A bust of a racehorse wearing blinkers)
The Jewel in the Crown (A Peacock standing on a pedestal)
Life-Cycle (An African bird catching a dragon-fly)
Summer Breeze (A bust of a horse with his mane blowing in the wind)
Rhapsody in Blue (A pair of herons in courtship)
Newspaper Reviews & Articles
The New York Times - The Albany Times Union - The Saratoga Press
The Birmingham News - The Miami Herald - Toronto Star
The Star Democrat - Princeton Packet - Hunterdon Democrat
Washington Post - Schenectady Gazette - Bucks County Herald
Magazine Reviews & Articles
The Thoroughbred Record - Spur - The Horseman’s Journal - Blood Horse
Southwest Art - Mary Englebreit’s Home Companion - Prime magazine
American Express Departures magazine - Hunterdon Life magazine
Television
Wide World of Sports (ABC) - Down the Stretch (ESPN)
P.M. Magazine (cable Network) - News at Six (Philadelphia station)
The Phil Donahue Show (Women in the Arts) - The Ellen Degeneres Show
Group Shows
Academy Art Museum, Easton MD 2008 (winner A. Brittain Banghart Award)
Rehoboth Art League Fine Craft Show 2008 (Honorable Mention, Giraffe chair)
Talbot County Visual Arts Center 2007(Honorable Mention Hide N Seek)
The Salmagundi Show, NY (1988 Third place, Angle of Attack)
International Art Expo, New York, Los Angeles & Dallas
Warner Communications at Rockefeller Center, NY
The Philadelphia Art Show
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Pace University Art Show, NY
Tuft’s University Equine Art Show, MA
American Academy of Equine Art
John T. Mather Hospital Outdoor Sculpture Show
Jewish Women’s Art League (L.I.), Art Show
Talbot County Visual Art Center
Chestertown Art League
Art Works, Chestertown
Galleries
8 Ongoing
Luna Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO - Frank Miele Gallery, New York NY
Timmelman Collection, Saugatuck, MI - Hardcastle Gallery, Easton MD
8 Previous
Midtown Galleries, New York, NY - King Gallery, New York, NY
Dayspring Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY - Hobe Sound Gallery, Jupiter FL
Meisner Gallery, New York - Howard Gallery, New Hope, PA
The Painted Critter, Lambertville, NJ
Solo Shows
Hoffberger Gallery, Baltimore, MD November, 2009
Corporate Collections
Key Corp, NY - The Farr Companies, Washington, D.C. - Hialeah Park, FL
Jim Wilson Associates, AL - New York Racing Association - Mellon Bank, VA
New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. - Harbert International, AL
Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation, OH - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, NY
Crown Controls Corporation, VA - CLP, McDonalds Corporation, AL
Murals & Sculpture Freelance Work
Nickelodeon Cable Network Trade Show: Sculpted life-size figures of:
The “Rug Rats”
Cat Dog and Cat Dog House
MTV Cable Network Trade Show: Sculpted life size figures:
The South Park Kids
Trade Show Booths: Painted numerous back-drops
History Channel: Painted murals for Trade Show
Sesame Street Store “Excite” (Painted murals for backdrops)
The White House:
Created backdrops for two inaugurations and press conferences
Sculpted figures and theme props for inauguration parade floats
ABC News, Peter Jennings
“The Israeli Crisis:” Sculpted three dimensional map
Large Political Mural 4 ½ feet by 6 feet, title “A Load of Bull”
Paper Castings
I have long been drawn to the ancient Chinese art of cast paper and decided to move forward with the creation of a new series of bas-relief sculpture that I have specifically designed to be hand cast in a high grade of elegant linen paper. The first two pieces in the series are complete and have been well-received by both the general public and my peers. I am thrilled that my very first cast paper sculpture, which depicts a pair of coursing greyhounds, has been selected as an entry for the 111th Open Annual Exhibition of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club at the National Arts Club in New York.
