Best in Show, Rowayton Arts Center, April 2022.

What if poet, activist Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for peace in a country whose national flower symbolizes its people's resistance and solidarity as they are attacked by Russia?

2020 is the centennial of the women's right to vote. I began this year making this piece honoring the Silent Sentinels, the brave women in the National Woman's Party who picketed the White House, were imprisoned, force fed and tortured during their struggle for the right to vote. Six months into 2020, the ring of protesting voices has returned in force with covid virus-related demonstrations and Black Lives Matter protests rocking the country.

This is a portrait of my husband's Uncle Sam. He wrote this letter home upon being freed from a German POW camp after WWII. When I came upon the letter, I was moved by his tough spirit and lack of bitterness. I had to make a piece about him.

Drawing of myself sitting atop collage of my favorite childhood books.

On plexiglass, which I placed over this oil portrait, I rewrote an incredible letter from my father-in-law Dick's uncle to him about this portrait of the uncle's mother, Dick's grandmother. The letter on how to care for the portrait was notarized (!) and carried strict instructions, including where to hang it and when to place flowers in front of it.

Memories of the milkman delivering milk bottles to the front steps of our house in New Jersey was triggered by the glass bottles of chocolate milk my son was consuming one summer.
So I decided to fill each empty bottle with memories from my childhood: Catholic school, bits of nature, shells from the shore, decorations from my birthday and Christmas, pieces from my grandmother's doll house that I played with for hours, sewing materials and parts from games I played with my five brothers and sisters.

A portrait of my grandmother, Mary Roberts. This conceptual piece combines images from my time with my grandmother sharing tea parties, dress up, stories, games, nature and religion.

Portrait of my parents who met in the Marines, married and had six children. This abstract piece incorporates images from their 60-plus years together.