Artist's Resume

My connection to visual art began in my early childhood, which was spent in my grandmother’s near-gingerbread house in the woods, surrounded by wood carvings made by my great-grandfather in the Black Forest of Bavaria. But it was many years later before I began to make art myself, in the course Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Having attended out of an interest in the psychological aspects, I was surprised to find myself taken by the art part.

education

• B.A. – biochemistry – College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa)
• Ph.D. – microbiology – University of Chicago
• D.V.M. – College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
• Teaching Certification – American Society for the Alexander Technique
• sculpture, clay
  • Silvermine School of the Arts – abstraction from animals, The Figure
  • Clay Art Center - abstraction
• sculpture, wood
  • sculpture, Janice Mauro
• drawing
  • Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
  • The Figure, Westchester Art Workshop
  • pen & ink, Silvermine Arts Center
• painting
  • acrylics – The Art Students’ League of NYC
  • aqueous media – Westchester Art Workshop
• puppetry (sculpture in motion)
  • training program, Sandglass Theater Company
  • puppet and stage design, Jane Stein
  • theatrical lighting, Columbia University
• calligraphic art
  • abstraction from Japanese calligraphy, Yoshiko Katsumi

exhibitions

• Fu re ai Shodo exhibition, Hiroshima, Japan, August, 2018
• West Meets East exhibition, Chinese Culture and Community Center, Gaithersburg, MD, 2017
• Shubi Exhibition, curated by the Central Museum of Ginza, Tokyo, traveling throughout Japan January-October, 2015
• solo exhibition of calligraphic art – Harrison Public Library, 2013
• Sumi-e Society of America exhibitions
  • national virtual exhibition, 2020
  • national galleried exhibition, Tallahassee, FL, 2017
  • national virtual exhibition, 2016
  • national galleried exhibition, Rockville, MD, 2014
  • national virtual exhibition, 2011: painting (Creativity award) and calligraphy (New Artist award)
• Asian Brush Artists' Guild exhibitions: Hammond Museum 2008-2019 and 2021, Greenwich Audubon 2007
• Mainiche Competition for Abstract Calligraphic Art of Japan, accepted for an exhibition that traveled among various Japanese museums, 2007
• Shodo Society calligraphy exhibitions, Pleasantville, NY , 2004-2019
• other group shows
  • Silvermine Art Center, 2000-2009, 2019 Best in Show
  • Westchester Art Workshop, 2008
  • Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, 2005
  • The Art Students' League, 2002
• National Puppetry Conference presentations, O'Neill Theater Center, CT, 2000-2001

lecture demonstrations

• CUNY Lifelong Peer Learning Program - The Creative Process: An Experiential Approach, 2021
• Parsons College of the New School – Calligraphic Art, 2014
• Shodo Society workshops – Using the Big Brush, 2006; Using the Whole Body, 2007

reviews

• B. Genocchio for The New York Times, 2009