About Me
My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 from Montclair State University with a major in Fine Arts. After a hectic career in publication design and production as well as a stint as a muralist and decorative painter, I finally obtained my graduate degree in Studio Art from MSU studying with Peter Barnett and Amer Kobaslija. Recently
I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978 from Montclair State University with a major in Fine Arts. After a hectic career in publication design and production as well as a stint as a muralist and decorative painter, I finally obtained my graduate degree in Studio Art from MSU studying with Peter Barnett and Amer Kobaslija. Recently retired from Bergen County Technical High School as an award- winning Visual & Graphic Design instructor, I am rediscovering my love of landscape painting with an occasional dash of vintage found object collage work.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
I have always taken the photographs on which I base my studio paintings. Visually orienting them from the street establishes a familiar, drive-by sense of movement. I rarely, if ever, edit the landscapes. I find the telephone poles, wires, traffic lights and curbside debris almost as interesting as the buildings themselves. An advantage o
I have always taken the photographs on which I base my studio paintings. Visually orienting them from the street establishes a familiar, drive-by sense of movement. I rarely, if ever, edit the landscapes. I find the telephone poles, wires, traffic lights and curbside debris almost as interesting as the buildings themselves. An advantage of digital photography is that I can easily enlarge the images on a computer monitor. This allows me to see detail that I may have otherwise overlooked. It also enables me to experience an intense explosion of atomic color as the pixels expand. I use layers of semi-translucent acrylic glazes to interpret these extended fields of hue. I work primarily with acrylic paint now. Plastic-based and fifties born, this once radical medium is well suited to my subject matter both thematically and historically.
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
I celebrate New Jersey highway architecture by painting the remains of the days when Americans could afford to be whimsical in their plans, individual in their pursuits and optimistic about their prospects. These buildings, still wondrous yet fading like a dream come morning, serve as my own personal metaphor of aging. They are also a dua
I celebrate New Jersey highway architecture by painting the remains of the days when Americans could afford to be whimsical in their plans, individual in their pursuits and optimistic about their prospects. These buildings, still wondrous yet fading like a dream come morning, serve as my own personal metaphor of aging. They are also a dual legacy of the painted and the paintings, as I race against the effects of time, taste and sprawl to capture tangible remnants of my youth and leave behind a record of myself as a visual artist. I hope they make you smile.