Exhibits

Over the years I have exhibited my work in many group shows under a variety of sponsors. A selected list is given below, with the names of some of the works shown.

• 1991-07 Eastern Pennsylvania Art Salon Invitational Exhibition, New Arts Gallery, Kutztown, PA. This is an annual gallery event in which I participate. 

• 2006, IAEA2006, Universite d’Avignon, Avignon, France

• 2006 Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity Members Exhibition, McGOPA Gallery, West Conshhoken, PA 

• 2005 Juried Members Exhibit, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA 

• 2005 Art Across The River, Columbia, NJ Second Place  

• 2005 Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity Juried Exhibit, West Chester University, PA 

• 2004 IAEA2004, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Portugal 

• 2004 Artists Equity Juried Exhibit, Phillips Museum, Lancaster, PA.
• 2003 Musikfest, A Citywide Arts Festival, Bethlehem, PA. I was commissioned to do an outdoor mural (4' high x 8' wde) based on a music theme.

• 2003 Art Across The River, Columbia, NJ Second Place  

• 2003 Juried Exhibit, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA 

• 2002 Crossing the Line, Moore College of Art and Design,Philadelphia, PA  

• 2002 Artists Equity Juried Exhibition, Widener University Art Gallery, PA 

• 2002 Hunger for the Arts, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA 

• 2002 Art Across The River, Columbia, NJ Honorable Mention  

• 2002 IAEA2002, Takarazuka School of Art and Design, Takarazuka,Japan  

• 2001 Guise and Dolls, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA 

• 2001 National Juried Exhibition, Mayfair, Allentown, PA 

• 2001 Art Across The River, Columbia, NJ Honorable Mention 

• 2001 Self Portrait, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA 

• 2000 IAEA2000, New School University, New York City, NY 

• 2000 Select Members' Exhibition, Artists Equity, Rowan University, NJ 

• 1999 Mayfair National Juried Art Exhibition, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA  

• 1999 Small Works Exhibition, Gallery at Cedar Hollow, Malvern, PA 

• 1999 Walrus Talks, Knight Gallery, Palmerton, Pa 

• 1998 IAEA Art Exhibition, 1st University of Rome, "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy  

• 1998 Mayfair National Juried Art Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA  

• 1997 First Night Bethlehem Art Exhibit, Bethlehem, PA  

• 1996 Artists Equity Juried Exhibition, Hardcastle Gallery, Wilmington, DE. Watercolor: WHAT IS. 

• 1995 Beginnings, An Open Juried Exhibition, Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Dublin, PA. Watercolor: Foundation Growth.  

• 1995 Artists Equity Annual Juried Exhibition, The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA. Watercolor: WHERE IS. 

• 1993 Currents in Electronic Imaging, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. Two Cibachrome prints of computer graphics. 

• 1993 Memento Mori: Remembering In The Age Of AIDS, Open Space Gallery, Allentown PA. I showed a book of responses (from the 1990 exhibit, see below) to the question "How do you feel about AIDS?" and asked viewers to again respond to the same question in 1993.  

• 1993 Outdoor Sculpture 1993, Penn State Berks Campus, Reading, PA. Installation of vertical sign posts related to inner rebirth, Signs of Hope.  

• 1991 DADA/DATA, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD. Three Cibachrome prints of computer graphics: Edges Eyes, Seeing Ourselves, You Are.  

• 1991 Outdoor Sculpture 1991, Penn State Berks Campus, Reading PA. Installation of a site specific work, Obstacles Get In The Way.  

• 1990 Visual AIDS: A community invitation in response to the AIDS crisis, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA. People wrote responses to How do you feel about AIDS? and hung them on the sculptural installation.  

• 1990 Outdoor Sculpture 1990. Penn State Berks Campus, Reading, PA. I burned grass to form the letters, CAN WE SURVIVE WITHOUT ART? 

• 1989 Berks Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Reading, PA. By invitation. The installation, Random Truth, was made of wooden logs and beams embedded in mulch, which were painted with words and questions. Viewers rearranged blocks to form new words as responses to the piece.  

• 1989 Artware: Artists Bookworks. A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Computer-based sculpture and interactive book, What is?. 

• 1988 Group Show, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA. By invitation. Pamela Fearing Hassay, curator. 

• 1988 Musikfest, A Citywide Arts Festival, Bethlehem, PA. I was commissioned to do an outdoor mural (4' high x 8' wde) based on perceptual/conceptual ideas about Bethlehem and its 18th century history.  

• 1988 Book Design: Practical and Provocative, American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA. By invitation. I exhibited a computer-generated books.  

• 1988 Artists Who Teach, Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Allentown, PA. By invitation. Perceptual Objects was a computer-based interactive sculpture which generated sounds (from 8 speakers) that created the metaphor of our internal perceptual experience as a response to multiple common objects. It was a tower, 8 feet high, emerging from a platform 3 feet x 4 feet, on which common objects were scattered.  

• 1986 The Artist and the Computer III, Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY. By invitation.  

• 1986 20th Juried Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA. Juror: Patterson Sims, Whitney Museum. Interactive installation in the Frank Lloyd Wright Library.  

• 1985 New Art/New Tech, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO. Interactive sculptures: Network II and Bulrushes.  

• 1985-87 The Artist and the Computer II, organized by the Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY. This exhibit traveled to galleries and museums throughout the Southeast for two years. Interactive sculpture: Bulrushes; Computer graphics: Spinning Wheel.  

• 1984 Celebration '84, Allentown Art Center, Allentown, PA. Juror: Alanna Heiss, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, NYC.  

• 1984 19th Juried Exhibition, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA. Jurors: Vivian Endicott Barnett, Solomon Guggenheim Museum; Allen Rosenbaum, Princeton University Art Museum.  

• 1983 Art and Technology, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA. By invitation.  

• 1982 Art by Computer and Video, Hansen Gallery, New York City, NY. By invitation.  

• 1981 Art by Psychologists, American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA. Juror: Calvin Nodine. Guest critic: Robert Irwin.  

• 1979 Penn State Salute to the Arts, Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA. By invitation.  

• 1978 Group Exhibition, 112 Workshop, New York City, NY. By invitation.  

• 1977 Portrait of the Sun Inn, Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, PA. Juror: Richard Redd.

My earlier work was shown at the Norfolk Art Museum (VA), the Arkep Gallery (NYC) and the Chautauqua Art Association (NY) among others. It is in a variety of private collections.

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