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Artist Statement:
My current preoccupations are
with photographing the sea and
sky near on the North Shore
coastline and transforming
photographs of flowers, stone,
metal, wood, and the sky into
mandala-like images. This work
is inspired by the paintings
of Georgia O'Keeffe and Claude
Monet, the nature photographs
of Andreas Feininger, and the
flower images of Harold
Feinstein, with whom I briefly
studied.
My personal motivation in
creating these more recent
images was to heal from a
decade of physical and
emotional trauma, the
consequence of a near-fatal
event in Albany, New York, in
1993. My choice of the
hexagram (the Star of David,
'beloved' in Hebrew) as the
organizing shape for most of
the mandala images was
subconscious, but I believe
this choice was no accident.
In many traditions, the Star
of David, composed of two
overlapping triangles,
represents the reconciliation
of opposites — male/female,
fire/water, and so on. Their
combination symbolizes unity
and harmony. Listening to what
the mandalas were telling me
led me out of a dark place
and, indirectly, to my
decision to become a
psychotherapist.
Making both the flower mandala
and the sea/sky images feel,
to me, like I am in
wordless...
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AWARDS
Grant in Photography, Massachusetts Cultural Council (2007).
Best Picture of the Month, Photography Unlimited (2002-2003).
PUBLICATIONS
Portfolio publication, "Flower Mandalas," LensWork Extended 69 (2007).
SHOWS
Two-person show, "Mandalas & Mudras," Pond Circle Gallery (Jamaica Plain, MA: 2007).
Group show, "Digital ’07: Pattern-Finding, New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY: 2007).
Group show, "Insights," Arsenal Center for the Arts (Watertown, MA: 2007).
Group show, "New Visions," Gallery 181 (Lawrence, MA: 2007).
Group show, "Seekers and Visions," Gallery 181 (Lawrence, MA: 2006).
Solo show, "Flower Mandalas," Organic Garden Gallery (Beverly, MA: 2006).
Group show, "Journeying Within Mind and Matter," Gallery 181 (Lawrence, MA: 2006).
Three-person show, "Mandalas: Maps of Conscious Order," MATV Gallery (Malden, MA: 2006).
Group show, "Art by Healers," J. David Broudo Gallery of Art (Beverly, MA: 2004).
Solo show, "20 Mandalas," Adolph I. Matz Gallery (Gloucester, MA: 2004).
Two-person show, "Driven to Abstraction," Club Passim Gallery (Cambridge, MA: 2004).
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