Selected Exhibitions:

• 2011 "The Response Art Series," Industry City Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
• 2011 "9/11 10th Anniversary Memorial Exhibition," Freyberger Gallery and Yocum Institute of the Arts, Penn State Berks, Pa. and The Jewish Cultural Center, September to December Reading, Penn.
• 2011 "Embodied Light," Exhibit and 9-11 Window Installation of "memory block," Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubinstein Gallery, including reading, "Reflections in Black Plastic," September – December, NY, NY
• 2010 and 2011 "Artists Beit Midrash Exhibit," Skirball Gallery at Temple Emanu-el, 65th Street, June, NY,NY
• 2009 H. Joe's Gallery, Tuscon, Arizona
• 2008* Rosenberg Exhibition Space, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
• 2008 The Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center, Mass.
• 2007 Mercy College Manhattan Campus, New York City
• 2007 Featherstone Center for the Arts, Oak Bluffs, Mass.
• 2006 The Pen and Brush, New York City
• 2006-2007 Louisa Gould Gallery, Martha's Vinyard, Mass.
• 2006 Salmagundi Club, New York City
• 2005 Broome Street Gallery, New York City
• 1984 to 2006 Abingdon Square Painters Annual Exhibit, New York City
• 2004 Mercy College, Manhattan, New York City
• 2003 Manhattan Arts International website, New York City
• 2003* Jefferson Market Regional Library, New York City
• 2002* Jefferson Market Regional Library, New York City
• 2001- 2011 Abingdon Square Painters Annual Exhibit, New York City
• 2001* Chase Manhattan Bank, 302 West 12 th Street, New York City
• 2001* Charles University, Department of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic

* = Solo exhibitions

Education:

• Psychoanalytic certification, Washington Square Institute
• M.S.W. and M.A., New York University
• B.F.A., Syracuse University and University of Michigan

Academic Honors and Awards:

• 2011 Honored by the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work for contributions to the field of Clinical Social Work.
• 1997 Gradiva Award Nominee in Painting, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
• 1996 to 1997 Liberty Partnership Grant, School of Visual Arts, New York City
• 1966 I.Merrill Foundation Grant, Pratt Graphic Art Center
• 1964 Magna Cum Laude, Syracuse University
• 1963 New York University and Syracuse University Scholarships
• 1962 Tau Sigma Delta, Architecture and Allied Arts Honorary, University of Michigan

Artist in Residence:

• 1990 Vermont Art Center, Vermont
• 1973,74,82 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Virginia
• 1969 The MacDowell Art Colony, New Hampshire

Community Work:

• 2010 and 2011 Reader and Judge for the Gradiva Award [ for creativity, originality and contribution to the field] National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, New York City
• 1992 to 2012 Founder and Chair of "The Creativity and Transformation Committee," NYS Society for Clinical Social Work organized and hosted five presentations/workshops on creativity and psychoanalysis per year and curated two member exhibitions.
• 2010-present Appointed Curator of the Abingdon Square Painters Association, Annual Exhibitions, L.I.C., New York City,
• 1998 to 2001 N.Y.C. Organized Exhibitions, New York City
• Abingdon Square Painters Association, New York City
• 1995 to 2001 Arts and Mental Health Consultant, Humanities Center, New York City
• 1992 to Present Chair of the Committee for the Arts and Creativity, New York State Society for Clinical Social Work

Articles on art and creative process:

• 2010 Review: "The Artful Brain: Survival Through Creativity." published by The Clinician, journal of the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work.
• Spring/Summer 2000.“Dealing With Rejection,” FYI For Your Information NYFA. New York Foundation for the Arts. (Ask Dr. Art)
• 2000 “Talking About Painting as an Expression of Gratitude,” Art League of Long Island.

Published by Manhattan Arts International:

• 1999 “Linking Private Space to Public Venue,”
• 1998 “Talking About Black and White,” .
• 1998 “ Opposing the Comfort of the Known,”
• 1998 “Creativity and Creative Process”

Lectures and Seminars:

• 2004 “"Symbol Formation in Healing: Depressive Personality Structure, A Case Study," (NYSSCSW) Syracuse, New York
• 2002 “Creativity and Creative Process: a Remedy for Healing,” Intercare, NY
• 2001 “Aesthetic Communication,” National Association of Social Workers, NY
• 2000 “Manic Depression and Art,” Locus Media Gallery Symposium, Soho, NYC
  

The New York City Art Teachers Association Annual Conferences:

• 1995. “Aesthetic Communication;”
• 1994 “Arts Resources, An Interpersonal Approach;”
• 1993 “The Business of Marketing Your Art,”
• 1992 “When Advice is Not Enough;”
• 1991 “From Feeling to Articulation,”
  
• 1990 “The Arts and the Creative Unconscious,” The Psychotherapy Center, Prague.

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Abbreviated list of debts of gratitude:

• Being a native New Yorker. Accompanying my grandfather to museums and religious services.
• Anthropology I at the University of Michigan. The study of dance and movement with Blanche Evan, dance therapy pioneer and Olga Ley formerly Naomi Goldberg Haas, Dances of a Variable Population.
• Samuel Breecher, my first art teacher and my grandmother who supported my creative vision