My Grandmother's Matchbook Collection (an installation)




Shadow box with 12 laser decals on porcelain tiles (16 x 16 in.)

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detail - tile with laser decal (3 x 2 1/4 in.)

Shadow box with glass and resin encapsulations (11 x 9 in.)

Mixed media: oil and sandpaper on canvas board  (23 x 19 1/2 in.)

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Max Loew's Viennese Lantern

Mixed media: oil, glass fragments and encapsulated matches (17 x 14 in.)

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detail: resin encapsulated matches from Max Loew's Viennese Lantern

The Viennese Lantern Waltz (MP3 - beginning)

by Red Nichols and His Penny Symphony (1955)

Starlite Roof, oil on canvas board, 13 x 9 in.



Oil on linen, 37x24 in.




Expressing Your Individuality, mixed media on canvas board, 18 x 24 in.

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Water colors and graphite, 20 x 16

Matchbook Producers ca. 1940's (to be produced as hanging scrims 10 ft. x 4 ft.)

An mp3 recording of a music box playing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" plays continuously. To hear hear a short excerpt, please click on the link. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Music Box

featured matchbooks

"Yitgadol" (from the Mourner's Kaddish) - oil on glass (14 x 6 in.)


Treat Yourself to the Very Best – digital print on handmade paper (30 x 20 in.)


Diptych, 8 x 8 in. nailpolish on birch panel with laser decals