About

I spent my youth growing up in the small town of Westerville, Ohio. I attended Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, where I graduated with a B.A. in Lit. and Fine Arts. In 1972, I was accepted to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where I received my Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting in 1974. I later directed two College Art Galleries in Michigan and upstate New York and was Exhibition’s Coordinator at the Alternative Museum New York City in 1990; I have been making art of one kind or  another ever since….

Quite simply, I am a Formalist by nature. To me, abstract and nonobjective artwork have their own language, their own rare, unprecedented vocabulary; this language engages the interrelationships among the visual elements of line, shape, and its various configurations and size– color, with its corresponding attributes of hue, value and saturation; I am given to manipulate these elements in a variety of ways, primarily with a brush, trowel or my fingers. Just as important as the application of materials, is its removal, using similar tools of the trade. Philosophically, I strive to be a painter’s painter, evoking in other artists, and those with the benefit of an “eye” educated in the artfulness of the artwork’s vocabulary. I also strive to evoke in the viewer a sense of pleasure, delight, wonder and awe, without representation or subject matter; The visual language should do this for me. It is its own subject mater, unto itself. Form is the content of my work, and the context within which it evolves towards Beauty.