About The Artist
Abstract and Representational artist Oil on canvas
I have been painting since the early 1960’s. In matters of style and productivity, I feel the years from 1975 onward have yielded my greatest personal satisfaction and growth in creative maturity. My artistic style has developed into big, bold images, filled with vivid color. Much of my work focuses on hard-edged geometric subjects and the division of space into contrasting colors that attempts to suggest pictures within pictures.
My canvasses are more representational imagery of an abstract nature. Although my main focus has been on abstract art, I continue to paint traditional subject matter as well. I try to offer an original view from my own perspective.I believe that my gift is allowing the viewer to see traditional subject matter in an unconventional way. The Musician Series is my personal view of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
I have been active as an artist both in New England and on the West Coast. From 1976 – 1980, I participated in the San Diego, California art community before I returned to the East Coast. In March 1984, I had my first one-man commercial show in the East, held at the Premier Image Gallery of Ashland, Massachusetts. My work is part of many private collections across the country and has won awards for artistic merit. I have also completed several large scale works by commission in Massachusetts and in California.
My professional affiliations include past memberships in the La Jolla Art Association and the San Diego Art Museum. As a first year member of the La Jolla Art Association,I was given a one-man show, considered at the time to be “a very unusual honor.” In eastern Massachusetts, I exhibited at numerous locations, such as award and juried shows hosted by art associations, banks, libraries and other public institutions.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I was trained formally as a commercial artist during my early years. My evolution as a painter however was largely self-taught. I am an art scholar,and have acquired a depth of knowledge in art history and the development of contemporary, fine and abstract art.
I have currently completed a series of works dedicated to capture the color and vitality of the the City of New York and Central Park, from 2005 to the present.
I have been living in Moorseville, N. C. since 2008 and have been showing at the galleries listed below.
EDUCATION
1984-1995 Studied oil painting with Bob Woods, Franklin, MA.
1957 Bok Vocational Tech--Commercial Art, Philadelphia, PA>
1955 South Philadelphia School of Fine Arts
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gallery 111, Moorsville, N.C.
Mack Center Gallery, Mooresville, N.C.
Davidson on-line Gallery, Davidson,N.C.
Woodenstone Gallery, Davidson, N.C.
2021 Gallery 111, Mooresville, N.C.
Woodenstone Gallery, Davidson, N.C.
Davidson College on-line gallery, Davidson, N.C.
Mack Center Gallery, Mooresville, N.C.
2020 Gallery 111, Mooresville, N. C.
Woodenstone Gallery Davidson, N. C.
Davidson College on line Gallery Davidson, N. C.
2019 Gallery 111, Mooresville, N. C.
2017 - 2019 Woodenstone Gallery, Davidson. N. C.
2014- 2019 Gallery 206, Mooresville, NC
2011 - 2013 Andre Christine Gallery , Mooresville, NC
2011 - 2012 Discoveredartist.com on line gallery
2010 Art on Main Street , Mooresville, NC
Moorsville, Art Guild
2009 Flow BMW , Winston-Salem NC
MAG (Mooresville Art Guild)
Contemporary Arts Network, New York, NY
Art on Main Street , Moorsville, NC
2008 New Art Center, Newton, MA
Contemporary Arts Network , New York, NY
2007 Bellingham Cultural Arts, Bellingham, MA
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative , Pawtucket, MA
EARLIER EXHIBITIONS (1979 - 1955)
Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Solo- Premier Image Gallery , Ashland.
Clairemont Art Guild , San Diego, Ca
San Diego Art Institute , San Diego, Ca
Solo - La Jolla Art Association, La Jolla, CA
San Diego Musesum of Art, San Diego, CA