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First things first! The opening of my first solo exhibition, COLOR Says, in Philadelphia is this coming Thursday, December 2, from 5-7 pm at Da Vinci Art Alliance at 704 Catharine Street. Show closes on December 19. Visit davinciartalliance.org for gallery information. Thrilled to be selected to have this exhibition centered around the in-progress artist’s…

Recent and decades-old cut and torn, colored and plain, misshapen and shapely teeny bits and large sheets of assorted paper rest in boxes (or tops or bottoms of boxes), in drawing pads, or remain scattered on trays, tabletops, and on the floor. An organizational effort is evidenced by boxes labeled yellow, red, blue. No attempt…

The annual end-of-the-year members’ exhibition at Da Vinci Art Alliance here in Philadelphia called for responses to the word light. Thinking of this holiday season under a word umbrella of light, my immediate thoughts jumped from religious scenes to starry night skies to festive Christmas lights, and then landed on a collage I created years…

A page torn from a paperback novel. Painted cadmium red medium. Kept over a decade. Often tacked to a bulletin board. Intermittently stared at pleasingly and quizzically. Color and texture are pleasing. It’s art and I can touch it. It bends. It’s flexible. It holds a mystery. I know it. I am faithful to it.…

“How did you get the idea?” A question asked to me not only by others but also by myself to myself. My answer may come simply or not. If the work is part of an ongoing series, I may view the answer in clear reference to previous work in that vein. With a new exploration,…

Inspired by some early work of Bridgit Riley, I made this color pencil sketch. Thoughts of fabric, texture, folds, movement, weightlessness, beauty, change. Experiencing it like an object I could reach out and touch. Another sketch presented possibilities of the overall field creating a sense of underlying shapes advancing the surface forward or back. Color?…