ARTIST STATEMENT: Preoccupied with the human condition, I have used the human figure and head for their unlimited expressive potential to explore social issues, and to a larger degree women’s issues, inspired by myth, history, and current events. In my paintings, books, sculpture, and works of paper I blend the personal with the collective, the inner with the outer, and the past with the present. Themes of growth, mortality and the process of grieving are also expressed in my work. Lately, I have been working in a more abstract manner, and have related this new visual language to the themes of science, Labyrinth and the Cosmos.
Hostages Held for Unknown Reasons (People in the News series) 1978 Oil pastel, charcoal & pencil on pages of the New York Times mounted on a linen sheet.
About Men (People in the News series) 1978 Oil pastel, charcoal, colored pencil on pages of the NY Times, mounted on a linen sheet
Sacks Fifth Avenue (People in the News series) 1977 Oil pastel on a page of the NY Times
Business and Finance (People in the News series) 1977 Oil pastel on a page of the NY Times
Echoes from the Past are Always Present #3 1980 Charcoal, oil pastel, colored pencil, paper & Xerox collage on paper
The Castle (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series) 1989 Oil on Canvas
Move # 3 (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series) 1990 Oil on canvas
Move # 9 (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series) 1991 Oil on canvas
Pawn # 3 (The Queen's Moves in a Game of Chess series) 1992 Oil on canvas
The Diary of Scheherazade (from The Thousand and One Nights series) 1996-99 Artist’s book; mixed media, feathers, collage, string in a book
Scheherazade’s Story #1: Mirage 1999 Pencil, color pencil, charcoal, photostat, and glassine on paper,
Scheherazade’s Story #3: I’ll Grant Anything You Wish or Desir 1999 Pencil, color pencil, charcoal, photostat, and glassine on paper
Scheherazade’s Story #6: Sueño 2000 Pencil, color pencil, charcoal, photostat, and glassine on paper
Musica Universalis #2 (Sky Watch series) 2005 Mixed media & collage on paper
Burning Flames in the Sky (Sky Watch series) 2007 Charcoal, pastel & collage on paper
Celestial Crossings #13 (Sky Watch series) 2009 Mixed media & collage on paper
The World of the Greeks: A Book Transformed 2002 Collage on a book cover
A Book Transformed #10 2002 Charcoal, pastel, collage on rice paper
A Book Transformed #7 2002 Charcoal, pastel, collage on rice paper
A Book Transformed #8 2002 Charcoal, pastel, collage on rice paper