Artist Biography
My first breath was taken in Florida in 1955. I found it agreeable so with time I found myself in an experimental high school program in Baltimore where art became my primary focus.

In 1973, I attended Pratt Institute on a scholarship but left after two years to work in construction which related more to the installation pieces I was doing at the time. Later I went to NYU and Hunter for art history and philosophy and also took courses at the Institute of Design and Construction in Brooklyn. In 1978 I moved to Manhattan’s Chinatown where I still reside. From 1987 to 2015 I had a studio in Dumbo.

Throughout the 1980s I was doing outdoor architectural pieces with reflected light and color and in the early 1990s spent several years doing site-specific installations using entire rooms. Among the early installations were pieces on the roof and staircase of my studio building; a huge storefront in Dumbo; and a basement vault space in Tribeca. (Although with different concerns, I’ve recently returned to doing installations which last year also included several street pieces.)
In the mid ’90’s, while primarily painting, I was also working on a number of repetitive-activity pieces using ballpoint pen or paint. One of the pen pieces, “100 Pages” was worked on from 1993 to 2017. Each of these ways of working share an expansive engagement with space (either interior or exterior, hidden or revealed).

I have shown in NY since 1982 and internationally since the mid ’90’s. From 2015 to 2017 I worked in Berlin for extended periods of time.

These days I’m finding homeopathy of interest, still find breathing agreeable, and continue doing this curious thing called art.