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2024
Visitor's Award and The 27
2024
Honorable Mention
2018
First Place
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Event: Quiet Landscape
Dates: April 30, 2021 - May 21, 2021
Juried international exhibition featuring quiet landscapes - one in gallery, one online. Jurors: Jacob and Alissa Hessler
Two of my photos were selected, one for the gallery exhibition and one online.
Event: Hometown
Dates: Feb. 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021
Photography featuring the theme, Hometown.
Event: Primary Colors
Dates: Feb. 1, 2021 - Feb. 2, 2022
International Juried Exhibition; Juror: Ann M. Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA. Due to Covid, the exhibition was online.
Won Juror's Selection for my photo, Yellow Bus.
Event: Winterfest Exhibition
Dates: Feb. 1, 2020 - March 31, 2020
Exhibition for local visual artists.
Event: Reveal - Member's Exhibition, Juried
Dates: Oct. 4, 2019 - Oct. 26, 2019
Juried exhibition of the members of the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York. Two of my macrophotographs were included: A tiny, dew-covered spider web, and a mushroom on the forest floor which was used on the marketing materials for the event.
Event: Interpretation - Juried Online Exhibition
Dates: Sept. 1, 2019 - Nov. 30, 2019
Entrants to this exhibition submitted work that embodied a poem with a nature theme. Mine was a photo of vibrant red Maple leaves floating in dark water.
Event: Caz Arts Alliance - Members’ Show
Dates: May 22, 2019 - May 31, 2019
1st Annual Member's Show of the Caz Arts Alliance. My submission was a color photograph of a blue door in Venice, Italy.
Event: In Motion - Juried Online Exhibition
Dates: Feb. 1, 2019 - Feb. 28, 2019
This juried photography exhibition features images that embody the concept of motion. My submission was a triptych of a snail crawling across a leaf.
Event: Solo Exhibition
Dates: Feb. 1, 2018 - Feb. 28, 2018
Solo exhibition featuring my nature and travel photogrpahy.
Event: fPOE Group Show
Dates: Oct. 1, 2016 - Oct. 31, 2016
An exhibition of photographs made by Female Photographers of Etsy from around the world. My work was a manipulated photograph of a window in a stone building in Austria surrounded by purple vines.
Event: fPOE Group Show
Dates: Jan. 2, 2016 - Jan. 31, 2016
An exhibition of photographs made by Female Photographers of Etsy from around the world. My work was a manipulated photograph of a window in a stone building in Austria surrounded by purple vines.
Event: All Cape Cod, Open Juried
Dates: May 22, 2014 - June 16, 2014
Open juried exhibition of Cape Cod themed art.
Event: Inspirations, Juried
Dates: Feb. 15, 2014 - March 15, 2014
Juried exhibition of work on subjects that inspire. Mine was a country road lined with autumn colors, laundry on a clothesline, and a grazing horse.
Event: Points of View
Dates: June 15, 2013 - July 15, 2013
Painters chose photographs on which to base their own new art. The photographs were exhibited alongside of the paintings.
Event: Ghosts, Spirits & Past Lives
Dates: Sept. 15, 2012 - Nov. 15, 2012
This exhibition, which falls during Halloween, featured art befitting the season. My submission was a manipulated black and white photograph of a crow in a cemetery.
Event: Points of View
Dates: June 1, 2012 - June 30, 2012
Painters chose photographs on which to base their own new art. The photographs were exhibited alongside of the paintings.
Event: Photography Exhibit
Dates: Jan. 2, 2012 - Jan. 31, 2012
Exhibition of Arts Alliance member's photographs.
Event: Birds and Nests
Dates: Oct. 1, 2011 - Oct. 31, 2011
An exhibition of bird and nest-oriented art. My photograph was a photomontage which was comprised of images of a nest, flowers, and an excerpt from a French dictionary.
Event: Artists of Madison County – Juried
Dates: Sept. 15, 2010 - Oct. 15, 2010
Juried Exhibition of artists living in Madison County, New York. My pieces were black and white, hand-colored gelatin-silver photographs.
Event: Solo Exhibition
Dates: Nov. 1, 2005 - Nov. 30, 2005
Solo exhibition featuring my black and white, hand-painted photographs.
Biography
I have been selling my photographic art online since 2011. I make photos and create montages that capture beauty and evoke emotion, both of the natural world and of human-made structures and objects.
At age 12, my dad gave me a vintage Argus C3 rangefinder camera. Around the same time I became interested in astronomy and saved my babysitting money to buy a 6” Newtonian reflector telescope. My dad built me a small observatory on our back hill and darkroom space in the basement. I saved more money and filled it with darkroom equipment, developing gelatin silver prints from my 35mm film.
By night I gazed through time and space, acutely aware of the vastness of the universe and Earth’s insignificance within that space. By day I was out with my camera marveling at nature and capturing our planet's beauty.
Today my childhood passions merge when I use my images of the night sky as a backdrop to elicit contemplation of our place in the universe. I still feel our planet is precious and continue to capture the beauty of it, but I cannot ignore the impact humans have on it due to population growth as well as political and economic factors. While do I capture the results of that impact, I also see beauty in our structures and objects.
