I am a painter, trained at Washington University,
working in New Jersey and around the world. Since graduating, I spent
time traveling, painting, studying the modern masters, and writing poetry in
Luzern, Innsbruck, Arles, Barcelona, Granada, Lisbon, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm,
Prague, Dubrovnik, Crete, Florence, Cinque Terre-- and more recently in the
US-- Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Big Sur, Abiquiu (New Mex), and the
desert of White Sands. I have shown periodically mostly in New York, but
also in Alexandria VA, Trenton NJ, Philadelphia, and Paris. Plans include
an 'On the Road' cross country odyssey, Switzerland in June, Shanghai in the
fall, Bombay and back in time for 09. Am also working on several books of
poems and visuals. Big dreams and no way to stop...
My painting is born from an overwhelming charge or imbalancea unified confluence of emotional,
primal, and spiritual thirst. The
process is a transmission of energy into the seen, much like a storm, restoring
a balance while providing for new generation. I allow the pull of gravity, the stream of flowing liquid,
the marks of state changesfreezing, melting, and evaporating, the irregular
gusts of wind, and the whims of nature to transform the canvas into a world in
flux. As the surface is activated,
I perceive it as the Precambrian broth through which life emerged from countless
reactions. The moves I make in
this mercurial terrain are the sparks of a critical mind, the marks of perhaps
not a creator, but a mindful collaborator. My work seeks a seamless fusion of purposeful and
coincidental, embodying
random precision, in Pink Floyd terms. Each painting is birthed and weaned in
this vein, just as I expect life itself arose, through seamless natural and
divine will.
