BIO
While living on the coast of Maine, in 2013, I began to focus exclusively on painting and studied with Steve Aimone in Thomaston, Maine. Later, upon my return to the Hudson Valley in NY I took workshops at the Woodstock School of Art, and participated in marathons and courses at the New York Studio School of painting and sculpture in NYC with Fran O’Neill and John Lees. But, mostly I am self-taught.
A solo exhibition of my paintings "FULL CIRCLE" will be exhibited at Triangle Gallery in Rockland, Maine in August 2023. "SHAPE OF A LANGUAGE", a solo show at First Street Gallery in NYC took place in February 2023. In 2021 "RAW INK - BLUE PAINT" solo show was exhibited at Five Points Gallery, Torrington CT. Additional paintings were part of group shows in Chelsea, NYC, Sonoma County, CA, and in the Hudson Valley. I am represented by Galley Lulo in Healdsburg, CA, where a solo exhibition is scheduled for April 2024. My paintings are included in private collections in the US and abroad.
Born in Tel Aviv and raised there and in London, I worked in television production in advertising (in London) and then for CBS News in Tel Aviv during the peace process of the historic visit of President Saadat to Jerusalem. In 1979 moved to NYC and worked on the Foreign Desk at CBS News in New York and as a researcher for Universe show with Walter Cronkite.
A passion for the art of jewelry led me to begin creating wearable objects in 1984. For over three decades my work was widely exhibited, published and sold nationally and abroad, garnering awards and grants. In 2007 I was a NYFA (NY Foundation for the Arts) fellow and in 2011 a juror for NYFA sculpture/Craft category. I was the curator of the “500 Silver Jewelry Designs” book published by Lark Books/Sterling Publishing in 2011 and a contributor to many other jewelry design publications.
Now back in the Hudson Valley I paint in my studio in Kingston NY.
RESUME
2013 - to date Full-time studio practice - painting and works on paper.
1985 – 2012 Full-time studio art jeweler and sculptor.
awards/grants/jurying
NYFA 2011 - Juror/Panelist - Sculpture and Crafts Fellowships
NYFA 2007 - New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship - crafts
Lark Books - Juror/Curator - 500 Silver Jewelry Designs, 2011
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation - Artist In Residence, SCC, Pittsburgh 2005
Art Farm Sculpture Grant - Women’s Studio Workshop, 2002
Best of Show - Crafts at the Castle, Boston, 2006
Best of Jewelry, Sausalito Arts Festival, 2007
Best of Show – Jewelry- American Craft Council, San Francisco 2004
solo exhibitions
2023 Triangle Gallery, Rockland, ME
First Street Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Gallery Lulo, Healdsburg, CA (April '24)
2021 Five Points Gallery, Torrington CT
2018 ARTBAR Gallery, Kingston NY
(two person painting show with Gene Gnida)
2010 The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Jewelerswerk Galerie, Washington DC
2006 Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA
2005 Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Obsidian Gallery, Tucson AZ
2001 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale NY
2001 Good Goods, Sautauket MI
2000 Objects of Desire, Louisville KY
2000 Boulder Coop Gallery, Boulder CO
1996 Objects of Desire, Louisville KY
1996 Nicolai Gallery, Columbus OH
1994 Sheila Nussbaum Gallery, Millburn NJ
1992 Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis MO
1991 Gallery 500, small craft warnings, Elkins Park
selected group exhibitions
2022 Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2021 Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea NYC. Connections V Invitational
2020 Kingston Annual2020 - Kingston NY
2020 First Street Gallery, Chelsea, NYC - 9 X19 select group exhibition.
2019 The Lockwood Gallery, Hurley NY - Into The Color
2019 Gallery Lulo, Healdsburg CA - paintings represented in Bay Area.
2014 From Seed to Sheet, Columbia College, chicago IL
2011 Geography - Exhibition, Art Jewelry Forum, Seattle SNAG
2010 SOFA NY - Charon Kransen Arts
2008 SOFA Chicago - Pistachios Gallery
2009 SOFA NY and Santa Fe - Charon Kransen Arts
2007 SOFA Chicago - Pistachios gallery
Ohio Craft Museum - Nature/Culture
2007 Morris Museum, Morristown NJ - Nature/Culture
2006 Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz NY Anxious Objects
2005 SOFA Chicago. Pistachios Gallery
De Novo Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA Nature /Culture
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA 500 Necklaces
Endicott College, Endicott, MA, From Seed to Sheet
New Jersey College of Art, NJ From Seed to Sheet
SOFA NY- Jewelerswerk Galerie
Shaw Jewelry Gallery, ME, Spiral Forms
American Craft Gallery, Cleveland, SNAG Conference
Brookfield Craft Center, CT Translucence
2004 American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA, From Seed to Sheet
Clemson University, Clemson, NC, From Seed to Sheet,
Marist College, Women Studio Workshop
Art Farm 3 person Grant show- From Seed To Sheet.
2002 Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica NY
Material Explorations
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH, Transformation 3
Martina & Co., Providence RI
Taboo Studio, San Diego CA
2001 Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA
Raphael Prize Competition Show, Transformation
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan MI
Martina & Co., Providence RI
Widney Moore Gallery, Portland OR
2000 Thomas Mann Gallery, New Orleans LA
Obsidian Gallery, Tucson AZ
SNAG Conference, St. Louis MO, SNAG Links
1999 Objects of Desire, Louisville KY
Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan MI, Treasures
1998 Langman Gallery, Willow Grove PA
Objects of Desire, Louisville KY
Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan MI, Treasures
1996 Sheila Nussbaum Gallery, Milburn NJ
Elena Zang Gallery, Shady NY
Donskoj & Co. Kingston NY
publications
Kingston Annual2020 - Exhibition catalog
From Seed To Sheet, 2014 Exhibition catalog, Columbia College, Chicago IL
500 Silver Jewelry Designs, Lark Books, 2011 Juror/Curator
Geography exhibition catalog 2011 - published by Art Jewelry Forum
Best of 500 Jewelry, Lark Books, 2011
Metalsmith Magazine, Review 2009
Metalsmith Magazine, Exhibition in Print 2009
500 Pendants and Lockets, Lark Books 2008
500 Necklaces, Lark Books, Fall 2006
ArtJewelry Now, by Donna Meilach, Schiffer Books 2004
The Metalsmith Book of Boxes and Lockets, by Tim McCreight,
Hand Books Press, 1999
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept 2006 Review
American Craft Magazine, Oct/Nov 2006
American Craft Magazine, June/July 2005 Review
Nature/Culture Catalog – Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, 2006
Big Steel-Little Steel - Video
on Talya’s sculpture project in Pittsburgh, 2005
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, January 2005
Hand papermaking Magazine, Summer 2003
Seed to Sheet, show catalog and essay WSW workshop, Rosendale NY
Transformations 3, Raphael Prize catalog,
Society of Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
Binnewater Tides, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, featured article
education self taught.
born Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Live and work in the Hudson Valley, NY