Born and raised in New York City I attended Bennington College and received a BA in History and Painting. I also attended Hunter College back in New York and received an MFA in Paintng and Printmaking. I have worked in New York over the last 35 years as an artist and art teacher at a prep school. My studio is in Tribeca where I produce my work. Summers on Nantucket have afforded me more time to get work done as well as a studio that I work on in Maine.
I am an artist who works primarily with oil paint on canvas on a variety of sizes that begin with collage/drawing sketches to inspire the painted work. The work is very colorful and investigates many different shapes and forms that overlap each other in a seemingly chaotic fashion.
I have been inspired by a variety of sources including Baroque and early 20th century artists. My most recent my work has also connected to my interest in pop art, pulp fiction and comic art. I have had an long and enduring passion for comic book color and imagery that has trickled into my work in a variety of ways. But most recently, I have been taking comic pages apart, collaging non figural elements together and making paintings from the resulting images.
The parts that I dissect from the old comics are largely explosive actions, intergalactic shapes, and some metallic, “manmade” elements, all of which reflect energy and dynamic forces in nature.
I find time and space fascinating and want to, in some manner, describe forces that are almost incompressible. Concepts like evolution, motion, vastness and microcosms, energy fields, and the extreme logic and unpredictability of the world and universe.
