EDUCATION
1975 M.F.A., School of the Arts, Columbia University
1968 Graduate study, University of California at Berkeley
1967 B.A., Mount Holyoke College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Trans Hudson Gallery, New York NY, New Sculpture
1997 Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, Shanks, New Sculpture and Drawings (catalog)
1994 Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Across the Bering Strait
1992. Klarfeld Berry Gallery, New York, NY, Dark Icons (catalog)
1987 C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York, NY, Tweed Garden
1986 Sculpture Center, New York, NY, Communion
1985 Tweed Courthouse, New York, NY, Tweed Garden
1982 C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York, NY, Paradise as a Garden
1985 Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY, Gardens
1983 55 Mercer, New York, NY, Waterfalls
1977 10 Downtown, New York, NY
AWARDS
1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation, also 1989
1994 Yaddo Residence Fellowship, also 1978 and 1980
1992 Guggenheim Fellowship
1990 New York Foundation for the Arts
1990 Athena Foundation
1985 New York State Council on the Arts, also 1979
1984 Betty Brazil Memorial Fund Award
1979 C.A.P.S. Grant in Sculpture
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Brooklyn Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Polk Museum, Lakeland, FL
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Museum of International Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
City College of New York, NY
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
The Dorsky Museum, S. U.N. Y. at New Paltz, NY
C. W. Post College, Greenvale, NY
Queens College, Flushing, NY
