ABOUT

Born 1952
Graduated from Miami Beach Senior High 1970
Graduated from School of Museum of Fine Arts Boston 1973
BFA Tufts University 1974
MFA California Institute of the Arts 1976

My Background

I’m an artist working in Central Florida. I studied with John Baldessari, Alexis Smith and Michael Asher in the 1970's at CalArts and graduated with an MFA in 1976. After leaving school I stopped making art to pursue a career in printing, graphic design and education. After I retired in 2014, I started making art again.

Making Books

After leaving Cal Arts my wife and I started a craft printing business dedicated to traditional letterpress printing including casting and setting metal type. We also experimented with paper making and alternative illustration processes. Under the Kenmore Press moniker we published a number of books of poetry including works by Arthur Lane, Robert Peters and the former Poet Laureate, Billy Collins.

We moved the press from Los Angeles to Pasadena California and took the name Anachronic Editions. We started writing and publishing more ambitious projects including Collotype:Being A History, Practicum and Bibliography and A Ludlow Anthology.

During this time we moved to Winter Haven Florida to build a house. Eventually we closed the press and I started teaching Graphic Design at local schools.I retired in 2014 and began making art again.

HOHO Chair

The first project I completed, after my retirement was a large, outdoor sculpture titled HOHO Chair, based on an idea I had in the early 1990's.

Essentially, the piece is a 24 foot high potty chair that is pointed directly towards Marcel Duchamp’s installation Etant donnes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The chair operates as a wormhole, or portal. If something were to drop through the hole in the seat it would be whisked away to the installation.

For more information about this project refer to the HOHO Chair page on this website.

Digital Art

While working on the HOHO Chair, I started a group of digital prints I call the binocular series. Inspired by the holes in the door of Etant donnes. Each canvas includes two circles that contain images combined with a statement. I have also started additional series of works based on other compositional strategies.

Billboard Installation

Billboard design chosen by #Art Pop Street Gallery for display on Interstate 4 in the Lakeland, Florida area,

Exhibitions

Feeling Loopy Online Show, Treat Gallery, April 2020
Black and White Show, Ridge Art Association, December 2019
Treat Gallery/Pulse Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida, December 2019
Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 2019
Off The Wall, Plaxall Gallery, LIC, Queens, November 2019 - February 2020
Treat Gallery/Satellite Art Show, Brooklyn, NY, October 2019
Ela's Forest Polk Museum of Art, November 2019 - February 2020
Ridge Art Association, Member's Show, Winter Haven, Florida, 2019
Two Artists Show Playing With Perception, Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens, September - October, 2019
Real People 2019, Northwest Area Arts Council, Crystal Lake, IL August - September, 2019
The 33rd Annual All Florida Juried Show, Alliance for the Arts, Ft. Myers, Florida, March, 2019
Prism: Identity, Empowerment, Individuality, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines, Florida, February-May, 2019
The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY, November, 2018
Winter Park Autumn Art Festival, Winter Park, FL October, 2018
The Other Art Fair, Chicago, IL, September, 2018
Mayfaire by the Lake, Lakeland, Florida, May, 2018
Ridge Art Association, Dress Code Show, Winter Haven, Florida, 2018
Solo Show at Polk State College Art Gallery, Lakeland, Florida, 2018
Treat Gallery Pop-Up Show, New York, NY 2017
Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Honorable Mention, Ridge Art Association, Members Exhibition, Winter Haven, FL, 2017
Award of Honor, Winter Park Autumn Art Festival, Winter Park, FL 2017
One of five artists chosen by ArtPop Street Gallery, #ArtPopLakeland to have work displayed on a billboard in Lakeland, FL, 2017-2018
Solo Exhibition through Fringe Creatives, Tampa, FL July — December, 2017
Art Impact's Best of the Best Show, Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC, August 2017
Florida's Finest, Art Center Sarasota, Florida, July, 2017
Mayfaire by the Lake, Lakeland, Florida, May, 2017
Juror's Choice Award at the Winter Haven Central Park Art Festival, March 2017
Second Place in the Ridge Art Association's Fine Art Show, Winter Haven, Florida, January 2017
Tree Swallow Gallery, Winter Haven, Florida, November 2016—January 2017
ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 2016