biography

I grew up in the Catskills when dairy farms divided the valleys and slopes of the mountains into geometries of color: hayfields, pastures with cows, and two hundred years of architecture — settlements of stone and wood, from early Dutch dwellings to stoic, white Greek Revival farmhouses. When I was nine, we moved to Cape Cod, where the ocean, salt water, sand, and pine woods became my home. My visual world changed, and New England aesthetics took hold.

I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1970. I printed briefly at the Experimental Etching Studio in Boston, and then at the DeCordova Museum School with Anne McCrae MacLeod (1972-82), and then spent a year as the Museum graphic designer before moving to Hollis, New Hampshire, in 1976.

McGowan Fine Arts in Concord, NH, represented my work and, through Mary McGowan, numerous corporate commissions came my way, as well as entry in the US Government Art-in-the-Embassies Program. Robert Doty, Director of the Currier Museum of Art, gave me a one-woman exhibition and purchased two prints for the museum collection. He recommended me for a MacDowell Fellowship, followed by an artist's residency at St. Anselm's College in 1988. Post MacDowell, I moved my studio into an old mill complex in Wilton, NH.

In 1990, I moved to Saint James, Long Island, and became Director of Gallery North, a regional not-for-profit gallery in Setauket, NY, from 1992-97. I was a guest curator at the Islip Art Museum, and worked with other Long Island Art Institutions. In 1997, my second husband and I moved to the Hudson Valley. I served as Director of the Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce until 2004, when I returned to making my work.

Since then, I've studied innovative print techniques and adapted to new, safer materials. Most recently (2015-16), I completed a year's Printmaking Mentorship Program with Joyce Silverstone of the Zea Mays Printmaking Studio in Florence, MA, and have been showing at galleries in New York City, the Hudson Valley, and the Catskills.

curriculum vitae

Solo Exhibitions:

2021 - As the Crow Flies, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY

2017, 19, 21, 22 - Art Studio Views, Open Studio, Dutchess and Columbia Counties, NY

2019 - Panther Arts: Teeny, Tiny Town Arts Festival, West Fulton, NY

2018 - Transparency, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY

2014 - First Street Gallery, New York, NY

2010 - Hammertown, Rhinebeck, NY

2009 - A Candle in the Night Gallery, Brattleboro, VT

2005 - Corporate Offices, Rhinebeck Savings Bank

1992 - Bellemeade Gallery, Smithtown, LI

1990 - Groton School Gallery, Groton, MA

1989 - McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH

1989 - New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH

1988 - The Printed Image, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH

1984 - AVA Gallery, New Lebanon, NH

1984 - Louise Kalin: Recent Prints, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH

1981 - ERPF Catskill Cultural Center, Arkville, NY

1980 - The Women's Center, Manchester, NH

Exhibitions:

2022 - Working in Series, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY     

2016-present - Exhibiting member of Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY

2021 - Artists from Hudson Valley East, Olive Library Gallery, Olive NY

2019 - Albert Shahinian Fine Arts - Printed, one-of-a-kind, 3-person print exhibition, Rhinebeck, NY

2018-2019 - Longyear Gallery - Monthly exhibitions of multiple works, year round, Margaretville, NY

2019 - Prints and Process, Longyear Gallery, Solar etchings, multiple print installations by members

2017 - Working Green, prints from Zea Mays Printmaking, Mother Brook Arts & Comm. Center

2017 - WAAM: Focus: Lay of the Land - Art inspired by nature, ten artists, juried by Thomas Huber, Woodstock Art Assoc. and Museum, Woodstock, NY

2017 - Far and Wide - Annual juried regional exhibition, Woodstock Art Assoc. and Museum, Woodstock, NY

2016 - Monoprints / Louise Kalin, and Felt Constructions / Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Millbrook Library Gallery, Millbrook, NY

2013-2018 - Juried member, Longyear Gallery (cooperative), in all exhibitions, Margaretville, NY

2011-2016 - Artists Choose Artists, Longyear Gallery, Margaretville, NY

2011-2014 - LOCAL, 55 Pittsfield Road, Lenox, Mass

2013 - Black & White, Augelock Gallery, Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY

2013 - MGNE Members Annual Exhibition, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA

2013 - Love, Lust and Desire, McGowan Fine Arts, Concord, NH

2011-2013 - Landscapes, Botanicals and All Things Terrestrial, LOCAL, Lenox, MA

2012 - Art for Clearwater, First Street Gallery, NYC

2011 - Boston Printmakers 2011 North American Print Biennial

2010 - Artspace 12526, Germantown, NY

2009, 2008 - Grasmere Estate Invitational, Rhinebeck, NY

2008 - MGNE National Juried Monotype/Monoprint Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA

2008 - Dutchess County Arts Council Juried Members Show, Poughkeepsie, NY

2008 - Women Printers, Gallery North, Setauket, LI

2007 - A Family in the Arts, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY

2006 - Printmaking, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH

2005 - Two-person Geometric, Hunting Tavern Museum, Andes, NY

1999 - Women's Works on Paper, Gallery North, Setauket, LI

1998 - Three Artists/Three Media, DeBlois Gallery, Newport, RI

1995 - Invitational, Atlantic Gallery, Soho, NYC

1994 - Paperworks, Lenore Tawney and Friends, C.W. Post, LI Univ.

1994 - The Artists' Champion: A tribute to Mac Doty, New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH

1994 - One on One, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH

1993 - Experimental Prints, Gallery North, Setauket, LI

1992 - Now and Future Collections, Currier Museum, Manchester, NH

1991 - Abstractions, Gallery North, Setauket, LI

1990 - McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH

1989 - MacDowell Fellows, Art Bank, Peterborough, NH

1989 - Invitational, Coyote Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1989 - National Works on Paper, University of North Dakota, Minot, ND

1988 - NH Art Assoc. Juried, Currier Museum, Manchester, NH

1987 - New Prints Northeast, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

1987 - New England Sculpture Society, Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH

1987 - Women's Invitational, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH

1987 - Art in the Garden, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

1986 - 67th National, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MA

1983 - Le Vernissage, Copley Society, Boston, MA

1982 - Juried Regional, Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH

1982 - NH Art Assoc. Juried, Currier Museum, Manchester, NH

1982 - Invitational, Artists Proof Studio, Cambridge, MA

1981 - Paperworks, C.O. Gallery, Acton, MA

1981 - DeCordova Collagraphers, Whistler House, Lowell, MA

1980 - Sharon Arts Center, and NH Art Assoc.at Sunnapee, NH

1980 - Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY

1979-1981 - Juried Exhibitions: Nashua Center For the Arts, and NH Art Assoc.

1979 - DeCordova Museum Printmakers, Lincoln, MA

1979 - Experimental Etching Studio, Boston City Hall Show, Boston, MA

1970 - Woods Gerry Mansion, Rhode Island School of Design, Prov., RI

Corporate and Private Collections:

Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, Burlington, VT

Paula Woodward, Campton, NH

Amoskeag Bank, NH

Baker & McKenzie, San Francisco, CA

Wiggin & Nourie, Manchester, NH - photo of installation

Renaissance Technologies, New York, NY - photos of installation

Bank of New Hampshire, (now TDBanknorth) Nashua, Concord, Wilton

Douglas Leonard & Garvey, Concord, NH

Fairchild Industries, Portland, ME

Margaret Hess Foundation, ERPF Foundation, Arkville, NY

Infantine Insurance, Manchester, NH

Liberty Mutual, 175 Berkley St., Boston, MA

Michel P. Haggerty Law Firm, Rhinebeck, NY

Nelson, Kinder, Mousseau & Saturley, Manchester, NH

Nolan and Nabor, Burlington, MA, and Chicago, IL

New Hampshire Charitable Trust, Manchester, NH

Pierce Atwood Law Firm, Concord, NH

Sanders Associates, Nashua, NH

Solloway and Hollis, Manchester, NH

Stabile, Inc., Manchester, NH

Vicki Haak, CFP, Ameriprise Financial Services, Rhinebeck, NY

Wescott, Millham and Dyer, Laconia, NH

Fellowships:

2015,2016 - Zea Mays Printmaking Mentorship with Joyce Silverstone

1987 - MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1988 - Artist-in-Residence, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH

Museum Collections:

Currier Museum, Manchester, NH

Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

Commissions:

Fairchild Industries, Portland, ME

Bank of NH

And others

Education:

Rhode Island School of Design, BFA

Masters Printmaking Program, DeCordova Museum School

Additional Studies:

2015-2016 - Printmaking Mentorship with Joyce Silverstone, Zea Mays Print Studio, Florence, MA

2006-2007 - Solar Plate Etching, Dorothy Cochran, Castle Hill, Wellfleet

2004, 2011 - Solar Plate Etching with Dan Weldon

1972-1982 - DeCordova Museum Masters printmaking studies - Anne McRae MacLeod, Jan Ehrenworth, and Anne MacDougal

1971-1972 - Experimental Etching Studio, Stanhope St, Boston, MA

1966 - Pouchoir Printmaking, Kaymar Studio, Dennis, MA

Arts Management:

1992-1997 - Executive Director, Gallery North, Setauket, Long Island - a regional, not-for-profit, retail Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery

1988-1990 - Initiated Artists' Studio Complex, Riverview Mills, Wilton, NH

Curatorial:

1994 - 12x12x12, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY

1989-1990 - NH Percent for the Arts, Christy MacAuliffe Planetarium Project

Awards:

1987-1989 - Currier Museum, Bank of NH Awards

1982 - Sharon Arts Center, Monadnock Paper Award

1966 - National Scholastic Arts Portfolio Scholarship to R.I.S.D.

1968 - Student Exchange program, France

Design, Publicity, Installations:

1979-1982 - Graphic Designer and sales for Puritan Press, Inc., Hollis, NH

1978-1979 - The Hollis Times, start-up small town newspaper - design and copy

1974-1975 - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, designed all printed matter

1971-1974 - Graphics, Retail and Restaurant Interior Design, Concord, MA

Memberships:

Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA

Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, Florence, MA

MGNE, Monoprint Guild of New England

Longyear Gallery, Cooperative Gallery in the Catskill Mountains, NY