Fine Art
About the Artist
For as long as I can remember, and even as a child, I've been subject to creative impulse. It has been a buoy of comfort for me, especially as I've followed a parallel career in the more collaborative performing arts, namely the theatre. I've had occasional art teachers, studied in art schools, and associated with other artists in their studios, but most of my development has come from a lifetime of looking at art in museums and books. My exhibits have been primarily in the Delmarva area, including showings at Glen Echo Park, The Orchard Gallery of Bethesda, the restaurant Mediterranean Blue, and The Source Theatre in Washington, D.C. I am grateful for many acquisitions for private collections, including some which are international.
After a hiatus, due in part to the pandemic, I returned to the studio in 2023—mysteriously reinvigorated and full of energy and ideas. My goal, if the resultant work can be a report, was evidently an exploration of color. But there was also a re-commitment to the abstract-within-figuration for which my influencers are known. They are the masters of the 20th century, "The Modernists". I strive for a regenerated Modernism, a continuing pursuit of newness of form and it's feeling-effect on the viewer, attempting to project the image as a thing in itself, separate from the subject.
The act of drawing or painting actively engages me, gives me great joy, and so while I hope the result becomes a shared experience with the viewer—appreciation of a line, color, composition, or a statement—much of what I'm trying to achieve as already taken place in the studio. I hope you take your time strolling through this virtual gallery, and that you enjoy viewing it as much as I did creating it.