born

1964 , Fairfax, VA

education

1986 B.F.A., State University of New York at Purchase

exhibitions (solo)

2009 Why the Wind Blows and Other Poular Delusions, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia

2005 What Is Not Forbidden, Studio 9 Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998 The Judge's Daughter, Julie: Artisans' Gallery, NYC, NY

1997 The Witchery of Sleep, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH

Au Kurant Juried Invitational of Emerging Artists, SOFA Chicago 1997, Chicago, IL

1995 Daddy Darwin's Dovecote (and other diversions), Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

1993 Points of Departure: The Found Object Palette in Jewelry, Gail M.Brown, Wynnewood, PA

1992 Max's Gallery, Westport, CT

1991 The Cheapness Of Beauty, O Gallery, Westport, CT

1989 Oddments, Tower Gallery, Port Chester, NY

 

selected exhibitions (group)

2014


Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, MADMuseum, New York

 

2013


Wear It Or Not: Recent Acquisitions, MADMuseum, New York

2007


Framing - The Art of Jewelry, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR

Framing - The Art of Jewelry, SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL

2006

City of Hobart Art Prize 2006, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

Sighting the Past, Macleay Museum, Sydney, Australia

2005

Sighting the Past, Macleay Museum, Sydney, Australia

Recollected / Re-Invented: The Narrative Craft Object, Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT

Concealment: Jewelry & Metal Arts, PostPicasso, www.postpicasso.com

2004

Assemblage 100, Gully Lounge, Auckland, New Zealand

Assemblage 100, Mount Marua, Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Assemblage 100, Real Tart Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

2003

Julie: Artisans' Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Julie: Artisans' Gallery, New York, NY

Jewelry Beyond Jewelry, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ

2002

City of Hobart Art Prize 2002, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

Oceans Alive: Artist Sea Forms, Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT

2001

The Relic-Makers, (curated by Keith E. Lo Bue), Gallery Tiller & Ernst, Vienna, Austria

The Relic-Makers, (curated by Keith E. Lo Bue), T.B.A., Hannover, Germany

2000

Sight Specific, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

The Relic-Makers, (curated by Keith E. Lo Bue), The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

[Bizu]-Génie - The Genesis of a Jewel, Ville de Quimperlé, South Brittany, France

Attitude & Action! North American Figurative Jewelry, DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland

Attitude & Action! North American Figurative Jewelry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

Figures: Alone & Together, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO

Living In The Moment: A Celebration of Jewish Time, Hebrew Union College, NYC

1999

The Relic-Makers (curated by Keith E. Lo Bue), OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD

The Relic-Makers (curated by Keith E. Lo Bue), Julie: Artisans' Gallery, NYC

The Shadow of Memory, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

Past Is Prologue: Four Artists, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA

THEM: An Exhibition of Artists, Scientists & Designers Concerned with the Entomological Universe, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Icons of the 20th Century, Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Beacons for the Future, Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis, MO

The End Is Near: Artists Look at the 20th Century, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI

Measure for Measure: Artists Explore the Four Dimensions, Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT

Living in the Moment: The Celebration of Jewish Time, Hebrew Union College, NYC

The Teapot Defined II, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1950-2000: Fifty Years of Studio Jewelry, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

25th Anniversary Exhibition, Julie: Artisans' Gallery, NYC

1998

Jewelry Without Jewels, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, Craft Students League, NYC

Eyecon, John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN

New Work, Bangs St. Gallery, Truro, MA

Clockwork, The Center for Contemporary Arts, University City, MO

Schmuck '98 International Exposition, Munich, Germany

...Finders, Keepers...OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Jewelry & Mixed Media Objects, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

1997

The Teapot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, SOFA Chicago 1997

Found Object Invitational, Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY

Trashures, Facere Jewelry Art, Seattle, WA

Telling a Story: Narrative Work in Craft, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC

Hard Evidence, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX

The Body Eclectic: Wearable Art, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA

Metal / Paper / Metal / Paper, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD

From the Trash Can to the Bank Vault: Current Attitudes in Jewelry, Phenomenon Gallery, Richmond, VA

Continental Divide, America House, Piermont, NY

Making A Spectacle, Fingers Gallery, Auckland, NZ

Making A Spectacle, AVID Gallery, Wellington, NZ

Valentines, Objects of Desire, Louisville, KY

Once Upon A Time..., Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

3 Generations: Mentors, Teachers, Students, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

New Work, Cat Black Gallery, Westport, CT

Tin Can Alley, Self Family Arts Center, Hilton Head Island, SC

1996

Making A Spectacle, FORM Gallery, Christchurch, NZ

The Tradition of Icons, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY

The Collectors Circle, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Old Meets New: Sampler Art, SOFA Chicago1996 (w/Mobilia Gallery), Chicago, IL

Continental Divide, Breckenridge Goldsmith Gallery, Breckenridge, CO

Continental Divide, Objects of Desire Gallery, Louisville, KY

The Boxists, Sailor's Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, RI

The Fine Art of the Tin Can, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD

New Art Annual '96, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT

(Juror: Jill Snyder, Director, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT)

Issues and Intent: Contemporary American Metalwork, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

The Beguiling Brooch, Facere Jewelry Art, Seattle, WA

1995

Art Jewelry: An Historical View, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Intimate Work, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT

The Chair: Deconstructed / Reconstructed, Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

One Of A Kind x One, The Wetsman Collection, Birmingham, MI

The Boxists, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

35th Barnum Juried Exhibition, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT

Jewelry From the Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum, NYC

All-Of-A-Piece, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

(Juror: Robert Storr, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum Of Modern Art, NYC)

Art of the Northeast USA, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

(Juror: Andre Emmerich, Owner, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NYC)

One Of A Kind, Joanne Rapp Gallery (The Hand and The Spirit), Scottsdale, AZ

One Of A Kind, Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

Group Exhibition, Distelfink Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

1994

International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

(Juror: Robert T. Buck, Director, Brooklyn Museum)

Art Of The Northeast USA, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

(Juror: Diane Waldman, Senior Curator & Deputy Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC)

Explorations: Inner/Outer Spaces, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

(Juror: Charlotta Kotiq, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum)

34th Barnum Juried Exhibition, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT

(Jurors: Jon Ippolito, Curatorial Coordinator, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, NYC, and Laura Trippi, Curator, The New Museum Of Contemporary Art, NYC)

National Juried Competition '94, Phoenix Gallery, NYC

(Juror: Diane Waldman, Senior Curator & Deputy Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC)

Beyond Paint: A Show of Multi-Mediums, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

The Telling Of Stories: Narrative Expressions in Jewelry and Fibre, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

Surrealist Affinities, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

1993

33rd Barnum Juried Exhibition, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT

Studio Days '93, Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA

All Things Great and Small, Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT

Art Of The Northeast USA, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

1992

New Members, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

System and Symbol, O Gallery, Westport, CT

The Inner Eye, O Gallery, Westport, CT

1991

Visions of War & Peace, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT

New Work, Wave Gallery, New Haven, CT

Collective Visions, O Gallery, Westport, CT

1990

New and Noteworthy, Views Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

A Collector's Choice: Jewelry for the Next Decade, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA