Who's Who in the Triptych - 3rd Panel

Who's Who in the Triptych - 2nd Panel

Who's Who in the Triptych - 1st Panel

Triptych's Third Panel

The third panel of Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century covers the period 1970 to 2005.

Triptych's second panel

The second panel of Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century covers the period 1930 to 1969.

Triptych's First Panel

The first panel of Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century covers the period 1900 to 1939.

Setting up an Exhibition at United Nations in Geneva - Palais des Nations

On July 4th, I installed Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the 20th Century at the United Nations' Palais des Nations in Geneva. The exhibition commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Commission on the Status of Women on the occasion of the ECOSOC Substantive Session in collaboration with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women.

Detail from 1st panel with Portrait Study

The charcoal drawing on canvas is a portrait study of Colette, the French novelist, 1873-1954. This portrait study is part of an on-going series begun in the Winter of 2004. My quest was purity of line. The line has immense power. One of my diary entries in 2005 reads: "If you are able to communicate through a clean, strong line what characterizes each of these women -- strength, greatness, purpose and humanity, they become very beautiful".

Colette is in this detail from the first panel covering the period from 1900 thru 1939.

Click on this link Voices Unabridged (January Issue # 7) to read a profile article on this project.

Go to www.un.org/radio/ to hear a recent interview about it.

Exhibition at the United Nations Headquarters

In January, the online Human Rights magazine Voices Unabridged (January Issue # 7) published an article on my triptych Leading the Way: A Tribute to Women of the Twentieth Century announcing my upcoming show at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

The Division for the Advancement of Women, who organized the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, had selected Leading the Way to commemorate the event.

The exhibit is running from February 27th to March 11th. To the left is the show's annoucement. Up above, the triptych on display at the UN.

Aung San Suu Kyi - b.1945/- Burmese Activist & Politician

Burma, a Southeast Asian country also known as Myanmar, has been under brutal, oppressive military rule since 1988.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the freedom fighter, human rights activist and leader of the National League for Democracy has lived under house-arrest on and off since 1990 for her unfaltering opposition to the repressive regime leading her country.

In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. She is currently living under house-arrest.