about me

I am a self-taught found-object sculptor. I love to recover and transform the detritus of American society, and the flea market is my favorite art store.

By combining diverse objects in sculpture with a narrative theme, I attempt to harness the energy represented by the transient tastes of a society that grows bored easily. I have long been intrigued by the African—and later American—tradition of “spirit” jugs. Tribal cultures often incorporated objects in a shrine to reincarnate the spirit of the possessor, and this tradition was eventually translated into a craft for Victorian women. Much of my work is an extension of that tradition.

In recent years my work has been shown at Ellarslie (Trenton City Museum), Morpeth Contemporary, the Noyes Museum in Oceanville, NJ, and the Gallery at Chapin in Lawrenceville. I have also shown at the Frank J. Miele Gallery and the Outsider Art Fair in New York, the Bernstein Gallery at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, and Riverrun Gallery in Lambertville. My work was included in the shows “Vision and Voice: Folk Art by Women of the 20th Century” at the Chubb Atrium Gallery and “Seven New Jersey Sculptors” at the Art Gallery of the College of New Jersey.