My Work
My degree in photography (Cornell/Pratt) served me well in designing some of the first multi-media installations for museums, exhibitions, and even a casino. Documentaries followed including features films about a party crasher, Deadheads, lack of arts education in public schools, and the architect John Lautner.
Throughout, I drew. And drew. Until I drew myself into painting.
Each work is an adventure rooted in deep looking. But first there’s a sketch. I’ll be inspired by the giant wheels of a truck passing too close on the freeway or a toddler’s pile of mismatched toys or bees swarming a flower eruption. And then there’s my palette, imprinted in my brain from growing up in Miami Beach.
The sketch becomes a story, a moment in time, something worth painting.
Integral to my work is the inherent physicality and rich matte of gouache. Seen from afar, the paintings share a graphic jolt that invites a closer look. Intimate viewing reveals the artist’s hand, the subtle texture of application, the irregular density of the paint.
My paintings are abstract and yet they offer the viewer of a narrative of their choosing.