Biography

I have shown my work at the Midway Studios, University of Chicago, where
I received my undergraduate degree in Anthropology. While living in the
Midwest, I exhibited work at the Hyde Park Art Center (home of the Harry
Who and the early Chicago Imagist painters) before dividing my studies
between the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I studied with Ray
Yoshida and Phil Hanson, and Northwestern University Law School. After
practicing law for several years and working actively in independent
politics, I spent a year painting at the Academie du Port Royale in Paris,
focusing on life studies and the human figure. This marked a permanent
change of direction in my life to making art full time.

The next five years were spent in San Francisco working in an artist's
community at the Hunter's Point Shipyards with several hundred artists. This
dynamic environment, surrounded by artists working in every medium, led to
the development of themes and techniques in my current work. The use
of paint was transformed by the introduction of photographic fragments of
images and text from objects of everyday life like kitchen utensils and
shoes, to stage sets, to the human face and figure. Current work is focused
on geographical places and the architectural forms within, including
coastlines and horizons.

My use of multiples, with the grid as an organizing spatial theme, came from
an early and intense exposure to mathematics by my father, a math instructor
at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Graph paper, the chessboard, and 3D
mathematical models all figured in this history. Integration of the grid
with the landscape was a logical development. The grids contain, reveal, and
sometimes hide the images within. The images may be static, or else move
through time and space within the grids, much like the freeze frames of
movie stills. The layering of paint with drips, printmaking-marks, and
brushstrokes competes with the organization imposed by the grid. The
repetitions create dynamic fluid images.

I was represented in San Francisco by Gallery Gae Shulman and have shown work in New York at the Loren Ellis Gallery, now Art for Healing, Inc. A
solo show of collage paintings entitled, "Multiples: Celebrity and
Anonymity", was held at the Macy Gallery, Columbia University Teacher's
College in 2002. I was represented in the Pen and Brush Society's 2004
annual juried exhibition and the Katonah Museum of Art's
Tri-Annual/Tri-State juried show, "Artistic Fragments, Art 2005". My
upcoming solo show, PORTALS, will take place at The Media Loft Gallery in
New Rochelle, New York in September and October of this year.