These works are part of an extensive series of objects and paintings that embody William Wordsworth's "Prelude." The look of the work was inspired in part by a photograph I saw in the New York Times in the days following 9/11. It was of an office in which everything was covered by grey ash so that ordinary things like desks and computers took on the aspect of an ancient site exhumed. As I have worked on my "Prelude" project I have come increasingly able to see it as something as nearly post-apocalyptic as that photograph but with culture, itself, in the form of poetry settling like ash over everything. The dense patterns of lines and letters that cover all my surfaces make the actual poem impossible to read but I feel that I honor it, nevertheless, through an act of penitential diligence. Born:New York City, 1942 Education:B.A. The City College of the City University of New York.Graduate studies in art history at Hunter CollegeStudied painting privately with Ward Jackson Work Experience:Staff Photographer, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962-1973Lecturer in Art, The Herbert H. Lehman College, 1968-1975Editor, Art Now: New York, 1968-1971Director of the department of photography, The Marlborough Gallery, 1975-1977Private dealer in art, 1978-1990.Curatorial consultant, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, 1999 Recent Group Exhibitions:"Win- Place- Show", Saratoga Conty Arts Council, Saratoga, N.Y., 2002 and 20035th Annual North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture and Performance Exhibition, North Bennington, V.T., 2002"Small Works, Molly Stark Firehouse, Bennington, V.T., 2003"Themes and Variations", The Plum Gallery, Williamstown, M.A., 2003"Obsession", Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, M.A., 2004"Seeing Black and White", Saratoga Conty Arts Council, Saratoga, N.Y.,2005"Pulp", Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, N.Y., 20059th Annual North Bennington Art Park, North Bennington, V.T., 2006"Contempory Sculpture at Chesterwood", Stockbridge M.A., 2006"Saratoga: Inside- Out, The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 2006 Solo Exhibitions:Ocean County College, Ocean County, N.J., 1976The Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington, V.T., 1993, 1995, and 1997No. B. I. A. S. Gallery, North Bennington, V.T. 1994Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, N.Y., 1994The Hip Pocket Gallery, Wiliamstown, M.A., 1994 and 1996Bennington College Carriage Barn Bennington, V.T., 1995Tunnel City Gallery, North Adams, M.A. 2002Catherine Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, V.T., 2006The National Gallery in Washington, “Caught in the Act”, 2009The Bennington Museum, 2020 Public Collections:The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis UniversityAmherst CollegeSouthwestern Vermont Health CareWilliams College Museum of ArtThe Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco