Bio
I am a visual artist currently based in New York, since 2001. I moved here after spending the early part of my career in California where I studied at the San Francisco Art Institute majoring in painting and drawing. Under the instruction and guidance of some of the leading figures in Bay Area Art at the time including Robert Colescott, Julius Hatofsky, and Richard Berger my worked developed its unique expressionist style. Later, I added sculpture which has sense become a part of my practice, an idea base work design to encompass the notion of a centered on using all of the traditional “plastic forms”. I am inspired by the works of Emile Nolde, Max Beckmann and the French Favues painters who placed emphasis on strong paint quality in lieu of exactness. The act of looking is key and early work with the photography continues to case it’s spell. After the San Francisco Art Institute I began my art career exhibiting for the most part in non-profit spaces such as the Luggage Store Gallery,Meridian Gallery and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. While in SF I worked on a series of public projects including murals, kiosk posters for the City of San Francisco and a large scale public project, the 3rd Street Light Rail Project which consisted of sculptural elements and windscreen poster designs.Important exhibition include Hallwalls in Buffalo, NY, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Number 35 and the Jeff Bailey Gallery and Peg Alston Fine Arts. I have also participated in several residencies among them LMCC Swing Space, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and VCCA. Other significant venues have been SFMOMA, Addison Gallery of American Art, The New Museum, San Jose Museum and San Diego Museum of Contemporary Arts and the Kingston Sculpture Biennnial in Kingston, NY