AN EXPLORATION OF ART

I enjoy exploring many different areas of art, as seen here on my website. After moving to Rhode Island I took a broad range of continuing educations classes at Rhode Island School of Design and worked with a few local artists. I expanded my vision and found that various forms of art interrelate, support and broaden each other. Aspects of art that I’ve experienced in one discipline have enhanced been incorporated into other forms of art.

My hallmark form of art is collage which I call “A Fanciful View of a Realistic Subject”. I love taking one form of printed material and converting it into an entirely new image.  Something catches my eye, a scene, an image, a photo, and I begin to transform it in my mind into a collage, imagining how I would design the new work, what I would want to incorporate into it, and what I want the new art to express. The collage is made of pieces of paper, chosen not only for color and interest, but also for the relevance and comment that it brings to the collage subject itself. I invite the viewer in for a closer look, whereupon he sees how the pieces of paper relate to the collage and the subject of the art.
 
The art is intended to be viewed and appreciated up close as much as from a distance.
I want the viewer to continue to explore, to discover more in the collage.
I often hide a shoe or two in my collages. See if you can find some.

PUBLISHED

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #23 Open Call: Seaside
Beach Feet and Beach Love and Beach Walkers Passing and Three Beach Walkers

SHOUTOUT SOCAL May 30. 2023

Artist Magazine, January-February 2023 / 57th Street, Honorable Mention

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #15 Open Call: Retail
Cupcake ala Hugo Boss and Cupcake ala Versace

National Collage Society, 2023 Calendar, Month of April / Three Beach Walkers

National Collage Society 2022 38th Annual Juried Exhibit / 57th Street

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #8 Ten Layer Challenge / Not Always a Game

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #3 Open Call: FOOD
Berried Cheesecake and Carrot Cake and Pink Frosting and Lemon Meringue

National Collage Society 2022 Calendar, Month of April / Union Square

National Collage Society, 2021 37th Annual Juried Exhibit / Union Square and Walk A Mile In Her Shoes

Create! Magazine Issue #26, July 2021 / Meet Me At Martini and Union Square

SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS

National Collage Society 2023 39th Annual Juried Exhibit, September - October 2023 / Cuba Loves A Convertible

Cultural Center of Cape Cod Elevate! Art on their elevator doors, staring August 2023 / Benefit Street Living

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #23 Theme: Seaside pg 60 / Three Beach Walkers, Beach Feet, Beach Walkers Passing, Beach Love

Providence Art Club Winter Members Show February 2023, juried by Michael Ezzell / Benefit St Living

Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts CAFA+ Members show January - March 2023, juried by CAFA Council Members / 57th St., Second Place

Art Room Gallery Competition “Green” December 2022 / Benefit Street Living, Honorable Mention

National Collage Society 2023 Calendar / Three Beach Walkers, month of April

Artists Magazine 59th Annual Art Competition, fall 2022 / 57th St., Honorable Mention in landscape

Artists Magazine January-February 2023 print issue / 57th St, Honorable mention

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #15 Retail December 2022 / cupcake ala Hugo Boss and cupcake ala Versace

RI Watercolor Society “Wild Card”, juried by Linnea Leeming, Oct– Nov 2022 / Percival The Penguin, Honorable Mention

National Collage Society 2022  38th Annual Juried Exhibit, October – November 2022 / 57th Street, pg 12

Bristol Art Museum 2022 Members’ Exhibit, Juried by Kristin Street, Sept 24-Oct 23 / Three Beach Walkers and 57th Street

Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc. NYC, #CollageNow2022, August 16, 2022 / Cuba Loves A Convertible and Columbus Circle

RI Watercolor Society “Artist’s Choice” juried by Michele Poirier Mozzone, Aug-Sept 2022 / Three Beach Walkers and Night At Times Square

Grey Cube Gallery Third Waters Contest July 1-31, 2022 / Beach Feet, Merit Award and Three Beach Walkers, Merit Award

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #8 Ten Layer Challenge: April 25 – May 4, 2022 / Not Always A Game

Contemporary Art Gallery Online “ALL Cityscape” Juried Competition, March 30- April 26, 2022
Union Square (First Place in mixed media) and The Neon Lights of Times Square and Night At Times Square and 57th Street

Collage Artists of America “Mixed Metaphors” juried by Robert Burridge / War and Peace and Life is Beautiful and Make Art, Not War

Warwick Center For Arts “Outside In” Juried by Sam Green, Main Gallery, Mar 5 to Apr 2, 2022 / Three Beach Walkers

RI Watercolor Society “Vision ‘22” Juried by Lorraine Bromley online Feb 26 to April 1, 2022 / Cuba Loves A Convertible and 57th Street

Warwick Center For Arts RISCA Atrium Galley Exhibit, February 23 to March 24, 2022 / Red Mule With Black Sock

Bristol Art Museum “We’re All In This Together” juried by Cindy Horowitz Wilson photography, Jan-Mar 2022: / No One Here

Providence Art Club Winter Members Show January 23 through February 19, 2022 / 57th Street

Warwick Center For Arts Members Show, Main Gallery January 22 through February 26, 2022 / Beach Walkers Passing

Fusion Art 7th Annual Artist’s Choice Art Competition, Jan to Feb 2022 / Night At Times Square, Honorable Mention and 57th Street and Cuba Love A Convertible

Las Laguna Art Gallery, Human Faces and Figures 2022 online exhibition, January 2022 / Something Strapless, after Sargent

LightSpaceTime 12th Annual CityScapes Art Competition, January 2022
Night At Times Square awarded Special Merit and 57th Street awarded Special Recognition

Contemporary Collage Magazine Issue #3 Open Call: FOOD / Berried Cheesecake, Carrot Cake, Pink Frosting, Lemon Meringue

National Collage Society 2022 Calendar, Juried / Union Square (image for April)

National Collage Society 2021 37th Annual Juried Exhibit, October to Dec 2021 / Walk A Mile In Her Shoes and Union Square

Collage Artists of America, Annual Juried Open Exhibit, Juried by La Monte Eugene Westmoreland, November 2021 / Walk A Mile In Her Shoes

AS220 Reading Room Solo Show, December 2021, Collage Fe(a)st dessert and cupcake series and cocktails

Barrington Public Library Solo Show, November 2021, larger pieces

LightSpaceTime Open Art Exhibition, Juried, October to December 2021, Seascapes / Three Beach Walkers Special Recognition

Art League RI, October to December, 2021 / Apple Bitten

Contemporary Art Gallery Online Juried, October 2021, theme All Animals / Percival The Penguin

Contemporary Art Gallery Online Juried, September 2021, theme All Water/Seascape / Three Beach Walkers Third place

Edward A. Dixon Gallery, Juried, August 2021, theme JOY (This Is Just What I Needed!) / Percival The Penguin

LightSpaceTime online Exhibition, Juried, August 2021 / Walk A Mile in Her Shoes (Special Merit) and Does The Pope Wear Prada? (Special Recognition)

CREATE! Magazine, Juried, Issue #26, late July 2021 / Meet Me At Martini and Union Square

Bristol Art Museum, Online group exhibition, March 2021 / Union Square

Gallery Night Providence February and March 2021 / Union Square (ranked third in popular voting)

Wickford Art Association, Juried, Seeing Red, February 2020 / Does The Pope Wear Prada? awarded Honorable Mention and Apple Bitten

Spring Bull Gallery Fakes and Forgeries, February 2015 / Something Strapless, after Sargent, awarded Most Original

ART ASSOCIATIONS

American Women Artists, Associate Member

Art Collective at the First Unitarian Church, Providence RI

Art League Rhode Island, Elected Artist Member

Artist Association of Nantucket

Collage Artists of America

Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA

Kolaj Magazine, an International Directory of Contemporary Collage Artists

Jamestown Art Center

National College Society, Signature Member

Newport Art Museum

Paris Collage Collective

Pawtucket Arts Collaborative

Providence Art Club, Exhibiting Artist Member

Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Artist Member

Wickford Art Association, Juried Artist Member