My artwork is content driven and based in photography, often incorporating text. I make
groups of works about specific issues —disease, violence, hatred, anti-Semitism, child
abuse, psychiatric drugs for children, racial and social inequality, the Holocaust, 9/11 and
immigration. I look at all of these issues as particular and personal concerns that spiral into
the political and general social realm. My work is very process oriented and uses simple
materials to create an emotional and immediate impact. I've created installations using
combinations of images on paper and other materials. I've explored the subjects of
contemporary immigration and the Holocaust through groups of altered books, combining
images and mixed media into sculptural objects.I recently began making handmade books of
lithograph prints and some in combination with digital photos and sewing.
I studied art (primarily painting, drawing and printmaking) in college and graduate school. I'm
a self-taught photographer and work as an art teacher in an urban school district in New
Jersey.