I have been creating art professionally since
1970.
I feel my work has continuously
progressed and evolved toward a more abstract and
symbolic personal statement.
Originally I operated in a surrealist vein.
Then I rediscovered the aerial viewpoint of my
psychological youth. When I moved my home
and studio to rural upstate New York I
studied traditional landscape to capture colors
and textures. All this came together in a
large series of abstracted aerial branchscapes in
which the topography of my surrounding
environment was built from found branches on
which I stretched canvas and painted
interpretations of photos I gathered on hired
airplane flights.
But I became lonely for human figures in my
work. I filled my studio with
characters built in the same fashion and based
them on the people I know and love. They
seem primitive and mask like but I feel that they
are definitely 21st century artworks.
Lately I have departed from depictions of
people and am now exploring fetishistic objects
that evoke excited emotional states. I call this series Sexy
Beasts. I am trying to be honest
about my obsessions. The more I make things that I imagine no one
else will relate to, the
more positive response I have been getting. My last show, "Unseen
Fetishes" was by far
the most popular and well received exhibition I ever had. I
enjoyed that.