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BIOGRAPHY
Biography
I came to New York originally to pursue clothing design. Not long after I came I formed my own company that specialized in women’s dresses and separates. When I started having trouble finding exciting fabrics I discovered a technique of fabric painting that allowed me to make my own. This led to collections of one of a kind hand painted garments. I soon found that I enjoyed painting the fabric more than designing the clothes and I began stretching the fabric and creating paintings.
I gave up my design business and started taking drawing classes at the Art Students League. Encouraged by my teachers there I began painting and drawing in earnest. In painting, I was always interested in the still life genre. I also found myself drawn to collage and so for many years I’ve done these two kinds of work. I wanted, however, to find a way to bring these two aspects of my work together, combining them somehow.
After creating a series of still life paintings using vintage dolls and toys as images the idea came to me to take the preparatory drawings that I had made for these paintings, cut them up and collage the pieces to create a new, what I called, “fractured” image. The new, collaged image then became the basis for another painting. After a few of these paintings on canvas I began taking these “fractured” images and making them into three-dimensional pieces using different thicknesses of wood.
