Biography

I have been making art for as long as I can recall.  Throughout the years, regardless of other activities including schooling, my family and my career as an architect, I always find myself thinking about and making paintings and sculptures.

For me, making art is a process of problem solving; how do I render a face, how do I capture and convey an expression or sentiment, how do I design and build the sculptural elements.  While I am generally satisfied with the end results, it’s actually the exploration and process that keeps me endlessly mesmerized and deeply engaged.  My sculpture-paintings (for lack of better term) blend all of this together- the art and magical expressiveness of painting and the science and technology of building the sculptures.

Every new piece is an evolution of it’s predecessors and a continued exploration of scale, point of view and narrative.   With the sculpture-paintings I’m using a sort of topographic mapping, an architect’s tool to describe a 3-dimensional plane and exploring the Cubist’s ideas about time and point of view relative to a static image.  In these pieces, there is no single fixed point from where one takes in the whole picture. As one moves around the painting, in time, the fractured image varies and eventually coalesces only in the mind’s eye.

Exhibits and Awards

Solo Show, Buckham Gallery, Flint MI, 2021

Juror’s Choice Award- juried exhibit “Blue” at Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA 2019

First Prize Award- juried exhibit “Simple Pleasures” at South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA 2019

“New England Collective X” juried exhibit at Galatea Fine Art, Boston MA 2019

Open Studios with Kestrel Trust Festival, Hadley, MA

Paradise City Arts Festival (accepted into show), Northampton, MA

Beverly Hills Art Festival, CA

Tiffany & Co window display, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA

Santa Monica Palisades Art Festival, CA

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