Artist Statement

Holding images and feelings of time and memory, I wrestle with paradigms of personal and collective mythology as I paint, sculpt and develop installation works.

Themes that most often reoccur in my work are those of human strengths/vulnerabilities and the psychology of everyday people.

Receiving my MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1990), I have been strongly influenced by Bay Area artists, such as Nathan Olivera, Elmer Bischoff, and Squeak Carnwath. Also figurative painters such as George Bazelitz, Peter Doig, Luc Tuymans, Susan Rothenberg, Chantal Joffe and Marlene Dumas. Sculptor/installation artists, Manuel Neri, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Kiki Smith, Ana Mendieta. Louise Bourgeois and photographer, Sally Mann.  

Art Studies/Affiliations and Related Experience

2009 Awarded Fellowship in Painting and Related Writings, Vermont Studio Center

2007 Awarded Fellowship in Painting, Vermont Studio Center

2002–2015 Art therapist/educator/art consultant

2000 MA, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1993-95 Resides in Jerusalem, Israel

1990 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute

1986 Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China

1980-83 Undergraduate Fine Arts studies, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan

Selected Solo Showings

A paler shade, Solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture works, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine, 2024-25. Burdens of the Bird, Solo Exhibition of paintings and sculpture/installation works, Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, Maine, 2024. A Woman’s Lament, Installation with sound, sculpture, and candlelight, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000. Closure, Installation of paintings and earth, Aziz Gallery,  San Francisco, California, 1991. Earthen channels, Earthwork Installation of North Campus Forest, University of Michigan,  Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1983.    

Selected Group Showings and Collaborations

Little Sparks, Lights Out Gallery, Norway, Maine, 2023. Annual Summer Exhibition, Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, Maine 2023. Open Studio, Portland, Maine, 2022. I’m inside a painting, Invitational short film collaboration, 2022. Yvonne Maiden, The interview, invitational short film interview collaboration, 2022. Drawings and Paintings, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2010.  Open Studio Project, MDI artists' group, Maine, 2009.  Lost and Found, Schoodic School House,  Northeast Harbor, Maine, 2008.  Human Form, Shaw Gallery,  Southeast Harbor, Maine, 2007.  Body Parts, Maine Center for Contemporary Art/June Fitzpatrick Gallery/Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, 2007.  Juried Annual, Lesley Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006. Works on Paper, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2005.  UMVA Best Works, Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of Atlantic,  Bar Harbor, Maine, 2004.  Shelter, Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of Atlantic,  Bar Harbor, Maine, 2003.  Maiden and Shetterly, Gallery Untitled, Sedgwick, Maine, 2003.  Flight, Wendell Gilley Museum,  Southwest Harbor, Maine, 2002.  Best Works, Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of Atlantic,  Bar Harbor, Maine, 2002;  Selections, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.  Still-lights, Lesley College,  Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999.  Transitions, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.  Self Images, Pierpoint Commons Gallery,  Arbor, Michigan, 1997.  Turning Point. Duso and Maiden, Installation with paintings and sounds for oboe, Kerrytown Concert House,  Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997.  Open Studio Project, Jerusalem, Israel, 1994.  Selections, The Point,  San Francisco, California, 1993.   Closure,  Aziz Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1991.  Pro Arts Annual, (Curator, Jacquelynn Bass, University Art Museum of Berkeley, California), Pro Arts, Oakland, California, 1990.  Selections, (Honored artist), Walter and McBean Gallery,  San Francisco, California, 1989.  Small/Big, SFAI Market Street Gallery,  San Francisco, California, 1988.  Selected Works, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1987.  Ink Works, Zhejiang Gallery,  Zhejiang Academy of Art,  Hangzhou, China, 1986.  Maiden and Pfruender, Goethe Institute, San Francisco, California, 1985.  (NEA Funded) Invitational Eastern Slope Exhibition, Gallery East, Eastern Utah College,  Price, Utah, 1984.  Selections, University of Michigan Gallery,  Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982.

Related Experience

Art therapist/educator/art consultant for local schools and facilities in Maine 2002-015.  Invitational visiting artist/lecturer, Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999.   Women’s Ways, organized a group show for women healing from trauma, Charles River Hospital,  Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1999.  Painting and Drawing instructor, San Francisco Art Institute,  San Francisco, California, 1990.  Fence Project, painted a large fence mural with the assistance of hospitalized children, University of Michigan,  Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982.  

Bibliography Selections

Nan Lincoln, “Lost and Found...”, Bar Harbor Times, January 2008.   Alice Fricassa, “Human Form at Shaw’s”, Bar Harbor Times/Mount Desert islander/Ellsworth American, July 2007.   Bob Keyes, “Body Parts...”,  PortlandPress Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, March 2007.   Jetsun Penkalski, "Mood Meets Narrative",  Ellsworth American, February 2002.   Jetsun Penkalski, "Art Takes Flight...", Ellsworth American, November 2002.   Kenneth Baker, "...Pro Arts Annual", San Francisco Chronicle, March 1990.   Celeste Conner, "Body as Leitmotif", Artweek Magazine. April 1990.