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GALLERY
EXHIBITIONS
2006 Fairfield
County Weekly Sponsored "Your Art Here" City
Lights Gallery,
Bridgeport, CT
2006 Wood
Water War, Starpin Gallery, Shelton, CT
2005 Elements
of Abstraction, Starpin Gallery, Shelton, CT
2005 Slideluck
Potshow V: Anticipation, The Bathouse Studios, New York, NY
2005 Prevue,
Starpin Gallery, Shelton, CT
2005 Spring Open
Studios, The NEST Arts Factory, Bridgeport, CT
2004 PrimitiveFuturisms
Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2004 Fall Festival of
Art, The NEST Arts Factory, Bridgeport, CT
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2005 Connecticut
Academy of Fine Art 94th Annual Juried Show, Mystic Art Association Gallery, Mystic,
CT
2004 Remembrances of
Things Past: 50 Years Anniversary Exhibition, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
2004 Putnam
County Arts Council 42nd Annual Juried Fine Art Show, Belle Levine Gallery, Mahopac,
NY
2004 Art Society of Old
Greenwich 2004 Juried Show, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut
2004 NJVCA
International Juried Show , New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
2003 Flat
Rock Brook Auction, Englewood, New Jersey
2003 Ringwood Manor
Association of Art 38th Annual Art Exhibition, Barn Gallery, Ringwood, New Jersey
2003 Connecticut
Academy of Fine Art 92nd Annual Juried Show, Mystic Art Association Gallery, Mystic,
CT.
2003 Bergen
County 39th Annual Art in the Park Show, Paramus, New Jersey
2003 Abstraction 2003, The Stage Gallery, Merrick,
New York
2002 Flat Rock
Brook Auction, Englewood, New Jersey
2002
Smithtown
Township Arts Council 27th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, St. James,
New York
2002
Bergen County 38th Annual Art in the Park
Show, Paramus, New Jersey
2001
Flat Rock Brook Auction, Englewood, New
Jersey
AWARDS
2004 Honorable
Mention, Remembrances
of Things Past, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
2003 Third Place,
Bergen County Art in the Park Show, Paramus, New Jersey
2002 Honorable
Mention, Bergen County Art in the Park Show, Paramus, New Jersey
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006
Greenwich Post “Raleigh's
Second Act: An Artist Who Believes in Ghosts” feature article 8/18/06
Greenwich Time
8/20/06
Greenwich Post
8/18/06
Greenwich Time
3/26/06
Greenwich Time
3/11/06
Greenwich Citizen
3/10/06
Greenwich Post
3/10/06
2005
Greenwich Post “The life
and death artwork of Raleigh” feature article 12/8/05
Fairfield County Weekly (“Your Art Here” feature article) 12/8/05
Greenwich Time 11/20/05
Greenwich Citizen 11/18/05
Fairfield County Weekly (Art Section) 6/16/05
WTNH-TV ABC Channel 8 New Haven , CT.-
“Art Attractions in Urban Areas” 6/10/05
Greenwich Post 6/9/05
Greenwich Citizen 6/1/05
Greenwich Post 5/26/05
Greenwich Time 4/27/05
2004 50th Anniversary
Exhibition catalog cover “Geppetto”, South
Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Northwestern University Magazine, Fall 2004
Greenwich Post 11/4/04
Greenwich Post 10/21/2004
Greenwich Time 10/11/04
New Jersey Star Ledger 2/8/04
Northern
Valley Suburbanite 1/21/04
2003 The Press Journal 10/30/03
Bergen County Arts Newsletter, Fall 2003
Northern Valley Suburbanite 9/24/03
Northern Valley Suburbanite 8/13/03
Northern Valley Suburbanite 5/21/03
Northern Valley Suburbanite 2/12/03
New York Times (Long Island Region) Art Reviews: Hidden Within the Geometry,
A
Suggestion of Real Things 2/2/03
ARTIST
STATEMENT
I
tell ghost stories in acrylic, oil and mixed media. My approach blends figurative and
abstract elements to create an ongoing internal narrative. The faint images I see emerging
from an abstract background often determine the story of the completed painting. If
I have to provide a label for my work, I’ll call it “figurative
expressionism”.
I see the world as a living internal landscape. When I look closely across
my landscape, I see the images of mask wearers and ghosts and lost children trying to find
their way home. On the roads of my interior landscape, we are all partial, we are
all broken, we are all seeking our place in a puzzle we don’t quite understand.
I work intuitively and spontaneously, embracing the "art of fouls" to
bring the contradictions of anger, sadness and a fiercely protected shred of hope to my
work. I rarely know where a piece is going, but I know when we get there.
The primitive figures that inhabit my painted work symbolize my fundamental belief in the
inherent fragility and loneliness of the human spirit. The past, in all its shadow and
specter, looms large in my work.
Much of my mixed media work uses images of my childhood family as a means of creating an
ongoing visual fictionalized biography. As with all biography, my life is equal parts
truth and fiction.
I first began to paint in November 2000, intending to be a full time writer. Then, the
stories in my head became pictures.
To date, I have completed over 600 acrylic, oil, and mixed media pieces.
I
have my doubts about heaven, but I still believe in ghosts.
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