Artist

From nothing to something, the magic of creating art has captivated me from a young age. I have been painting and writing what seems like forever. My formal art training came at the 92nd Street Y Art Center in Manhattan and I have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington.

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My painting focus in recent years has been my series, Unraveling, a narrative exploration of how trauma travels down the generations. It tells a story of hope and despair through my own experience as the daughter of a Holocaust Survivor and begs to ask the question, “can a legacy of violence ever be transcended?” These paintings lean toward loose representational images and are all oil on canvas.

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Deeply affected by my father’s traumatic legacy of loss my poems also tend toward the narrative, ever probing what has been for me an unfathomable history.

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While originally from Seattle, Washington, I now live and work in West Long Branch, New Jersey.  My husband, David, and I have five children and fifteen grandchildren. The generations continue.