Sky Lit 1

digital photogram, 22x17", 2024

When I first saw so-called ‘fine art photography' in 1967, I instantly recognized it was the medium for me.
50+ years later, I still find it’s visual and narrative potential inexhaustible. Photography continually re-invents itself (think iPhone), and forces me to do the same.

I make two sorts of photographic images: camera-based photographs of our world, and non-camera photograms, abstract images made with photo materials and processes. My photographs and photograms influence each other and I’m now exploring ways of presenting them together.

I was born and raised in Minnesota. After college, in 1968 I moved to New York.
I received my MFA from UW in 1980, then returned to New York.
Doug Kahn and I edited Cultures in Contention, Real Comet Press, Seattle, 1986.

In the 1990s I worked and exhibited in Russia and Ukraine.
My widely-exhibited 2000 exhibition, A Voice Silenced, is a memorial to my Viennese grandmother, Leonore Schwarz Neumaier, first contralto of the Frankfurt Opera who was murdered by the Nazis in 1942.

During covid I retired from teaching, and resettled in Seattle.