My artwork is content-driven and based in photography, and often
incorporates text. I make groups of works about specific issues:
disease, violence, hatred, anti-Semitism, child abuse, psychiatric drugs
for children, racial and social inequality, the Holocaust, 9/11, and
immigration. I've created installations using combinations of images on
paper and other materials, and participatory public art projects. I've
designed public art projects about the nature of memory and have been
creating print work on this subject and its philosophical history. Groups of
altered books combine images and mixed media into sculptural objects.
I've made handmade books of paper lithographic prints with digital
photos and sewing. I look at all of these issues as particular and personal
concerns that spiral into the political and general social realm. I'm
interested in making art that connects to the viewer directly, through
aesthetics, emotions and intellect.
I studied art (primarily painting, drawing and printmaking) in college and
graduate school. I also work as an art teacher in an urban school district
in New Jersey.