2009      This and That,: The Art of Collage, Assemblage & Found Objects, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT

    2008      Lobby Exhibition for David Sedaris' "Santaland Diaries",  Playhouse on the Green Theater, Bridgeport, CT

    2008      3rd Annual Member Show, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT

    2008      Bridgeport: Lost and Found, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT

    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 27^th 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

2008      The Connecticut Post "Art In Bridgeport" feature article 9/28/08

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    50^th 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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