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'<div  id="resume" class="bio"><p>I studied drawing and painting from my early teens through my twenties with various professional artists in their private arteliers and at the Art Students\' League.  I finished up studying sculpture and printmaking at SUNY Empire State College and SUNY Stony Brook with professors Barbarie Rothstein at the former and Dan Weldon at the latter.</p><p>I work weekdays at my studio where I have been practicing my art for more than 35 years.  I have taught studio art (painting and drawing) for SUNY Empire State College, The Art League of Long Island (then known as Huntington Township Art League) and privately in my studio in Northport.  I have retired from teaching.  For several years I did courtroom illustration for Newsday and CBS TV News.  I have been fortunate to have my paintings exhibited in most of the Long Island museums to include our Heckscher Museum in Huntington, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton and the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor.  Many galleries have shown my work as well - on Long Island and New York City.</p><p>In the summer of 2010 I made a very large painting incorporating the land, the figure and the moon - my three major interests. I call it Pacifica.  I was inspired to do this painting so long ago in 1980 while standing in front of Picasso\'s Guernica. Picasso\'s intent, it is said, was to turn men away from inflicting this nightmare on humankind.  Guernica is his \"antiwar\" statement and it is horrific.  As a woman, pacifist and artist, it is my opinion that monumental, iconic images of war in any medium are the product of wrong thinking.  Instead, or to bring balance, I felt the need to make a huge image of peaceful co-existence with people of all nations and cultures.  A residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson VT facilitated the making of this painting of peace that is eleven and a half feet tall and twenty-five feet wide. I had the time of my life finally completing this project. Maybe one day it will be viewed alongside it\'s male counterpart, Guernica.</p></div>';