Biography and Statement
I began photography in New York City after graduating from Cornell University with a degree in English literature. Since 1973, I have lived in Boston.
I had one-person exhibitions at Gallery Kayafas, Boston, in 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2023. I am now represented by Robert Klein Gallery, 38 Newbury Street in Boston: https://www.robertkleingallery.com/
Significant group shows:
A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley at the Davis Museum of Wellesley College
Contemplating the View: American Landscape Photography at the Addison Gallery of American Art.
My photographs are in the collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Colby College Museum of Art, the Davis Museum of Wellesley College and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
I'm interested in the look of things. My photogaphs spring from seeing formal qualities and visual relationships and wishing to transform them into a work of art. The subsequent realization of these perceptions in print form is the fascination of photography.
The photographs respond to the sucesses or failures of the ones that came before. The process is visual. The artistic impulse may be driven by age and loss, anger and regret, by a need for play and freedom but the statement is the photographs.
We do well to remember that there is no part of our equipment and materials – cameras, printers, ink and paper – that is untouched by the exploitation of others. And that our opportunities were not always granted to others of equal or greater abilities. So it behooves us to create work that is as true and honest and faithful to ourselves as it can be. And to remember that the freedom to do this must be seized again and again.
Greed, hatred indifference and love – in wildly unequal proportions – have given us the world in which we live. Soon enough we will be gone from it, individually and collectively. And yet: can it be that something, like an echo, will remain of our attempts to give sense to it all? We must believe it true.