Simultaneously humble and heroic, the human condition is defined by moments in which we are both vulnerable and defiant. My video sculptures explore intimate relationships and private rituals. Using my body in ceaseless repetition of an activity, I focus on the physical exertion and psychological tension of the moment. Sculptural elements define and embody the activity, giving it a physical presence and landscape that shares space with the viewer and imparts a visceral experience.

By confining moving images in steel I-beams or stone columns, embedding images in sandpaper or folds of felt, enshrining a gesture in a building's facade, my work arises from and addresses the interdependence of image, sound, and sculptural form.

Instinctually familiar to the viewer, the rituals I perform address the intimacy and violence in our personal lives. The gestures I record are primal, historically rooted, recurrent images of conflict, power, fear, and acceptance. I work with my body in situations familiar and volatile, physically confronting our passivity as voyeurs and our responsibility as witnesses.

Brandeis University, Laurie Theater, Waltham, MA.  “Puzzle Master” (video projections and set design for composer Eric Chasalow), CyberArts Festival.

2003

Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA.

AXIOM,“Witnesses” Boston, MA.
Howard Yezerski Gallery, CyberArts Festival, Boston, MA.

Pomona College Museum of Art, “The senses: Selection from the permanent collection” Claremont, CA.

Howard Yezerski Gallery, "Some of Their Parts" Boston, MA.
DeCordova Museum, "Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art", Lincoln, MA  (catalog).
Michael S. Currier Center, Putney, VT.

DeCordova Museum, "Celebrating Contemporary Art in New England: Recent Acquisitions", Lincoln, MA.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, "New Works: Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students of Massachusetts College of Art", Boston, MA.
Women in Film & Video/New England, Harvard Film Archive, "Short and Edgy", Cambridge, MA.
Rose Art Museum, "Visual Memoirs", Waltham, MA.
Arizona University (1999), AR, and Gallery at Southwestern University (2000), "TeleSculpture99", TX.

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, "The Nude in Contemporary Art” Ridgefield, CT, (Catalog).
Bellevue Art Museum, "The Self, Absorbed", Bellevue, WA.
CyberArts Festival, Computer Museum,” New Digital Sculpture”, Boston, MA, (catalog on-line).

Real Art Ways, "No England No Amsterdam III", Hartford, CT.
Tufts University Art Gallery, "Face Value: Reflections on Identity", Boston, MA.
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA.
Brush Art Gallery, "The Artist as Observer and Observed", Lowell, MA.

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, "Subject(s): A Collective Portrait", Waltham, MA.
Bernard Toale Gallery, "Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 - Now", Boston, MA.
The Alternative Museum, "Expansion Art: Artists of Our Times", New York, NY.
Howard Yezerski Gallery, "Portrait as Object/Figure as Ground", Boston, MA.

Howard Yezerski Gallery, "Industrial Strength", Boston, MA.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, "New Acquisitions", Waltham, MA.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, "Milena Dopitov In Context", Boston, MA, (Catalog).
Fogg Art Museum, "Power, Pleasure, Pain". Cambridge, MA.
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, "Body as Measure" Wellesley, MA,  (Catalog).
Howard Yezerski Gallery, "Nine Months", Boston, MA.

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA.
Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA, (Catalog).

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, "Naked in a Time of Censorship" North Dartmouth, MA.
Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, "Bunting Fellows", Cambridge, MA.
Arthur Roger Gallery, "Gallery Artists", New York, NY.
Akin Gallery, "Salon", Boston, MA.

Howard Yezerski Gallery, "Mystery and Ritual" Boston, MA.
DeCordova Museum, "9 Artists/9 Visions: 1991", Lincoln, MA, (Catalog).
Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, "Visiting Artists", Worcester, MA.

1990

THE BOSTON GLOBE, December 27, Cate McQuaid, "Art brought to the edge"
THE BOSTON GLOBE, November 1, Cate McQuaid, "Challenging Perceptions of a troubled world "
BIG RED & SHINY, October 22, Jacqueline Houton, "Witnesses at Axiom"
THE BOSTON GLOBE, May 7, Jeremy Eichler, “Ancient Myth with (electro-acoustic) resonance”.
THE BOSTON PHOENIX, April 20, Christopher Millis, “Conversations  Wanted”

1984

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

POSITIONS HELD

Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (current).

Adjunct Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

Adjunct Faculty, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Adjunct Faculty, Visual Arts Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Arts Resources, Los Angeles, CA.

Writer, “A Sense of Place,” documentary on the art of created environments and Isamu Noguchi.

LECTURESHIPS

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA.

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA.

Massachusetts Women’s Caucus, Cambridge, MA.

University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.

College Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.