STATEMENT

PROCESS

My creative mission is to delight eye and mind by pushing collage into new dimensions, and putting my own spin on it. Drawing on the Reiki process of infusing the work with calming energy I am liberating my hands to create my own abstract vocabulary of forms, lines, words, language. These fluid works express emotion through hand-drawn lines as well as stock illustrations in Canva and Open Source collections.  

I am a literal abstract digital collagist based in Wilmington, DE. I'm always on the tightrope of Decorative vs. Fine Art aesthetics and only get satisfied when the work resonates as problem solved.

I have also been writing poetry and making art my entire life. After decades painting in oil and acrylic, I found a new way to express myself in digital work beginning in 2019. Works range from interpretations of emotion to abstract portraits of people and animals. Also my work spans medium size to a larger scale, on billboards, public videos, etc.

My new work is digital fine art printed on canvas. The work expresses a collage sensibility.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/INTERVIEWS 

2026 Group show, Art Book, Jouissance Gallery, NYC

2025 Broughaha Gallery Group Virtual Show My Generation Hong Kong

2024 Altiba-9 Interview, 10 Questions With Alice Shapiro

2016 Museum of History and Art, Douglasville, Georgia, US.(Relief sculpture, acrylic portrait of staffer and son)

GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES 

2022-2025, An art residency (NC), received two grants one for digital billboard project, Had a solo show and an art talk. A self-generated project included a billboard installation series in and around Times Square monthly for a year including a special tribute et The Apollo Theatre street level featuring a local NC artist on dialysis.  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

2016-2017 nano-sculptures Gallery, Founder, GA

1988 Advisory Board, Anne Hammel & Dancers, NYC

1986 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Inventory Control Admin

POETRY - 2025-Present

2026 Awarded an online residency with Sundress Press.

2011-2014 Appointed Poet Laureate, Metro Atlanta

2009 Saltian, to dance, Unbound Content Press

AWARDS

Pushcart Prize Nominee twice

GAYA Georgia Author of the Year nominee 

Literary Titan Silver Book Award

Bill C. Davis Drama Award

Served as a judge for Poetry Out Loud Atlanta Regionals twice


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