June August

My primary theme is Art about Art.  This is largely informed by working as visiting artist in Europe and Asia, particularly time spent in Japan. This encouraged me to make connections among art works and artists of ostensibly disparate media and historical eras with different social, cultural and political concerns.
As a research fellow in Japan at Tokyo National University of Arts and Music, I developed an appreciation for the complex relationship between high art of Japan’s Edo period and popular art of manga and anime in contemporary Japan.  I could see this connection in Murakami’s concept of Superflat, evident in his cartoon imagery as Mr. Dob and his mythical patterns of human flowers.
I started working on Warhol imagery after seeing a portrait show at the Jewish Museum, New York.  My colors, drawings, patterns could apply to Murakami, Warhol, Ingres, Renaissance art, Greek art, in a playful way. “What I love most is money,” Warhol, became a pattern of dollars behind both men. My Blue Murakami is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
I started making silkscreens in Ireland, on a Visiting Artists Grant.  An Irish artist, printing in Cork, suggested my switching to silkscreen. This path-cha...

Research Fellow Tokyo Geidai National U. of Fine Arts, 2002 Tokyo, Japan
MFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University 1996 Boston, Massachusetts USA
National Merit Scholarship BFA Syracuse Univ. (Design) Syracuse, NY

Solo Exhibitions
2020 Art and Justice Ginzburg Sam Adams Milky Way Gallery, Boston
2017 An American Artist in Paris US Embassy Gallery, Paris, France
2016 Images of Women Mayor’s Gallery at Boston City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
2015 June August New Work Samuel Adams Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2013 Pop Fusion: Past Present Newbury College Art Gallery, Brookline, MA
2011 New Work NKG Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 What I Love Most Is Money Vitale, Caturano & CO Gallery-Bentley U, Waltham,MA
2007 Dress Opera and Sudoku Pearl Street Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2004 Floating World Artworks of Japanese POP, Clown Gallery, Portland, Maine USA
2001 Baby Dresses Dielammer Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1999 Monica’s Dress O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, Maine, USA
1999 Rachmaninoff’s Ribbons Fondazione Adolph Carmine, Florence, Italy
1998 Einladung zur Eroffnung Arrow Opera prints/sound art, Gallery 68 ELF, Cologne
1998 Chant et Art Visuel Installation-prints,piano,my voice-arias”LaBoheme” CiteDAParis
1998 You Haven’t Words - Opera Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium
1997 Desire Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1996 100 Bridges Opera III Installation w/ Croa...