"I use a camera to look at the world of people, places, objects and ideas. I strive to offer images as portals of entry into realms where we resonate at our core."
I am an artist who traded her Carnegie Mellon University paintbrushes for a camera...and never looked back. The visual image is my real passion: streetshooting, documentary, editorial, events, portraiture, and exhibiting my fine art photography for over 35 years.
In Los Angeles, while working on photo assignments and as photo editor for a nationally published magazine and stock photo agency, I continued my own personal work exhibiting in solo and group shows. I won Best of Show of the Los Angeles Advertising Photographers of America Personal Work Competition in 1994 and later was listed as one of the Top 100 Photographers in the worldwide 1996 Ernst Hass Awards.
In an early project near and dear to my heart, I received grant funding in 1978 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pennsylvania Public Committee to direct and photograph a book project "Pennsylvania Potato Farmer: Portrait of Change." This was an opportunity to visually document through photographic essay the affects of a then changing, and now lost, way of American life in the Lehigh Valley.
My work has been published and acknowledge many times over for more than three decades. A few highlights from past works: In 2010 the Julia M. Cameron Awards world wide juried competition for women photographers honored me as a finalist. I was the recipient of a grant in the 2009 Emerging Artists Grant (funded by the Durham Arts Council with support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Dept. of Cultural Resources and the National Endowment of the Arts). I received a 2005 First Place in Photography in the juried book series: Best of North Carolina Artists & Artisans. The book “Our Beautiful Children”, published by international organization M.I.L.K. includes my work…as has the nationally distributed Sun Magazine, the “Dreams” issue of the esteemed black and white photography magazine SHOTS, and recently my short video film from the “Trapped Spirits: (What) Lies Within” series was featured on NYC based DitnerFIneArt.com -Project Room #55.
I grew up in Allentown, PA and received a BFA in Painting & Design from Carnegie Mellon University. I have lived in New York, San Francisco, North Carolina, traveled in Europe and spend time in India. I returned once again to reside and continue to photograph in Los Angeles in 2013.
EXHIBITIONS
Invitational Group Show -
El Camino Art Gallery
Online -2020
Invitational Group Show - “InstagramLand”
The Perfect Exposure Gallery
Los Angeles, CA 2018
Collaboration Exhibition, “AHI ESTA EL DETALLE” with Peter Liashkov
Cearte Baja California
Ensenada, Mexico 2017
Invitational Group Show, “Mother & Child”
El Camino Art Gallery,
Torrance, CA 2017
Group Show - “Instagrammers”
Manzanita STUDIO
Los Angeles, CA 2016
Group Show, “Aesthetics”
The Perfect Exposure Gallery
Los Angeles, CA 2015
Featured Artist, “Project Room #55 “
DitnerFineArt.com
Trapped Spirits -Film
NYC, NY 2012
Juried Group Show, “RAP-10”
Crussell Fine Arts Galley, online Gallery 2010
Solo Exhibition, “Portals of Perception”
Briar Creek - Community Gallery
Chapel Hill, NC 2011
Solo Exhibition, “Trapped Spirits”
Points of View Gallery
Raleigh, NC 2010
Invitational Group Show, “Embodiment”
Greenhill Center for NC Arts
Greensboro, NC, 2010
Juried Group Show, “Dreams and Fantasies”
The Vermont Photography Workplace / PhotoPlace Gallery
Middlebury, VT 2009
Juried Group Show, North Carolina Artists Exhibition. Juror: Kimerly Rorschach, Ph.D
Director, Nasher Museum of Art
Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts
Raleigh, NC 200
Solo Exhibition) Lifting the Veil of Night”
Durham Art Guild, CCB Gallery
Durham, NC 2008
Solo Exhibition, “Lifting the Veil of Night”
Horace Williams House
Chapel Hill, NC 2008
Group Show, “Future-Spective”
Center for Photography
Brattleboro, VT 2008
Group Show, “Faces – A Collection” Curator: John Rosenthal
Carrboro Branch Library
Carrboro, NC 2008
Juried Group Show, North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Juror: Lawrence Wheeler,
Director NC Museum of Art
Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts
Raleigh, NC 2008
Juried Group Show, 26th North Carolina Photographers Biannual Exhibition,
Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Meredith College,
Raleigh, NC 2007
Juried Group Show, “The Intimate Portrait” Juror: Joyce Tenneson,
Mills Pond House Gallery
St. James, NY. April 2006
Group Show, “We Are All Different, We are All the Same”,
Carrboro Branch Library,
Carrboro, NC 2005
Juried Group Show, “24th North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition”, Juror: Anne Wilkes Tucker
Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Meredith College,
Raleigh, NC 2004
Group Show, “Not So Simple. Images Made With Toy Cameras”, Meredith College
Raleigh, NC 2004
Group Show Toy Camera Images, Back Porch Gallery,
Durham Art Council
Durham, NC 2004
Corporate Art Exhibition “Covered Houses” Red Hat Headquarters
Raleigh, NC 2004
Juried Exhibition, Merry Moor Winnett Photography Triennial,
Green Hill Center
Greensboro, NC 2004
Juried Exhibition 32nd Annual Competition for North & South Carolina Artists
Fayetteville Museum of Art
Fayetteville, NC 2004
Juried Exhibition, 20th Annual “Through Women’s Eyes by Women’s Hands”
Chapel Hill, NC 2004 & 2006
Solo Exhibition, “Glimpses & Beyond” Alice & George Gallery
Raleigh, NC 2003
Juried Exhibition, 19th Annual “Through Women’s Eyes by Women’s Hands”
Chapel Hill, NC 2003
Group Show, Sizl Gallery
Carrboro, NC 2003
Solo Exhibition, "Covered Houses",
Center for Photography Gallery
Brattleboro, VT. 2002
Juried Exhibition, "Action/Reaction", Women’s Caucus for Art,
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 2002
Solo Exhibition, " Trees & Landscapes" Keene Art Association,
Chesterfield, NH 2001
Juried Exhibition, Women’s Caucus for Art,
New England College Gallery
Henniker, NH 2001
Juried Exhibition, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College
Keene, NH h2000
Invitational Exhibition, "Golden Reflections", SYDA Foundation
Ontario, CA 1999
Group Show, "Wiley Women" Gascon Art Gallery
Los Angeles, CA1996
Solo Exhibition, "Toy Camera Images", Blue Gate Gallery
Los Angeles, CA 1994
Group Show, "The 60’s", G. Ray Hawkins Gallery
Los Angeles, CA 1991
Group Show, "Manipulations & Techniques", Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA 1979
Solo Exhibition, Allentown College
Allentown, PA 1979
AWARDS
Finalist, “Julia M. Cameron Awards” for women photographers.
Worldwide Competition 2010
First Alternate Finalist, NC Artist Fellowship NC Arts Council
2008
Best of Show,cJuried Group Show, 26th North Carolina Photographers Biannual Exhibition,
Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Meredith College,
Raleigh, NC 2007
First Prize, Photo Category, Juried Book Series, “Best of North Carolina Artists&Artisan 2005”
Kennedy Publications
Best of Show, 24th North Carolina Photographers Annual Exhibition,
Gaddy-HamrickArt Center, Meredith College, Juror: Anne Wilkes Tucker
Raleigh, NC 2004
Best of Show, Photographic Competition, Alice & George Gallery
Raleigh, NC 2003
Finalist, "Ernst Haas Awards", Top 100 Photographers
Worldwide Competition 1996
Honorable Mentions (2), Advertising Photographers of America (APA)
"Photo 7 Personal Work”
Competition/Exhibition
Los Angeles, CA 1995
Best of Show Award, Advertising Photographers of America (APA)
"Photo 6 Personal Work” Competition/Exhibition
Los Angeles, CA 1994
GRANTS
Emerging Artists Grant
Funded by Durham Arts Council with support from North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Dept. of Cultural Resources and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Awarded for specific project proposal.
2009
Grant Project Director/Photographer, "Pennsylvania Potato Farmer: Portrait of Change",
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pennsylvania Public
Committee
Photographically driven educational grant project and book.
New Tripoli, Pennsylvania 1978 –1979