I am a native New Yorker. Born and raised in Rockaway Beach, I was influenced since early childhood by nature, the ocean and the changing moods and textures of the beach, the soldiers stationed there during WW II, as well as my mother’s Bingo chips, which provided hours of creative play.
My art education took me from The School of Visual Arts in New York to summer residency at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, to the University of Pennsylvania, where I earned my Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts Degrees.
During my studies at Penn I coordinated audio-visual and mixed-media exhibits at the University American Indian Gallery, and taught printmaking and graphic design. After graduating, I taught printmaking at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
The next five years, my wife and I lived in Honolulu, where I worked as a media specialist at the University of Hawaii. Upon return to New York, we established and successfully managed for many years a company providing graphic design, typesetting and commercial printing services.
I am currently a resident of East Hampton, concentrating full time on art. My life-long experience of working in the printing field has led to my choice of materials – in creating fluid, metamorphic images on glass, I use oil-based printing inks as my medium. I also work with Sumi inks, creating large abstract images.
I have exhibited at several venues in the past, among them The Pratt Center in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and more recently at Guild Hall, East HamptonTown Hall, Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, the Surface Library Gallery in Springs, the Crazy Monkey Gallery in Amagansett and the Levitas Cultural Center in Southampton.
I am a member of the Artists Alliance of East Hampton, the Crazy Monkey Gallery, and East End Photographers Group. In July 2009, I was elected to serve as a president of the Artist Alliance of East Hampton for the years 2009 to 2011.