ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings are a direct byproduct of intense involvement with improvisational music and free-verse poetic composition. They are about expressive freedom, dramatic and evolutionary movement, balance and integrity/synthesis, and ultimately about natural order. What drives movement is tension. I like to think of my paintings as places where the most divergent and unexpected things collide, converging at just the right time into articulate realizations of new compositional possibilities.
Solo Exhibitions:
2014 Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2012 Lee Kaloidis Painting Studio & Gallery, Chicago
2011 The New Hope Arts Center, New Hope PA
2010 PNC Bank, New Hope PA
2010 "Flying Colors", Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville NJ
2008 The Frame Shop Gallery, Lambertville NJ
2004 Philadelphia Art Expo, Philadelphia PA
Group Exhibitions:
2013 Abstraction Revisited: The New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA
2013 Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2012-2013 The Estate, Curated by Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta GA
2012-2013 Mandarin Oriental, Curated by Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2012 Atelier Gary Lee, Merchandise Mart, Chicago
2011 New Hope Film Festival, New Hope Arts, New Hope PA
2010 Sculpture New Hope, New Hope Arts, New Hope PA
2009 The Frame Shop Gallery, Lambertville NJ
2009 Philips Mill Annual Juried Show, Bucks County PA
2009 Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Juried by Virginia Mecklenberg,
Curator Painting/Sculpture Smithsonian, New Castle PA
University Education:
1979-1982 Brooklyn College, English Literature
1978 The New School for Social Research, Poetry with William Packard, NYC
1973-1975 University of Miami School of Music, Jazz Studies
Private/Ongoing Studies:
2008 to Present: Founded the Private Online Discussion Group
"Thinking About Art" on Flickr
2004 to Present: Online Visual Art Sessions/Discussions/Critique Groups
(Painting/Photography)
1994-1998 Improvisation with Michael Disibio (Student of Lennie Tristano), Jazz Trumpet, NYC
1992-1994 Private study, Trumpet, Jerome Callet (Trumpet Designer/Technical Coach), NYC
1975 Private study with Bob McCoy (NYC Studios), Trumpet, NYC
1969-1972 Private study with Vinnie Tanno (Stan Kenton), Trumpet, South Florida
Poetry Publication:
1992-1994 Published in Various Poetry/Literary Quarterlies:
Orbis, Special American Poetry Edition, UK
The Little Magazine, SUNY (State University of New York)
Painted Bride Quarterly, Philadelphia
The Howling Mantra, WI
Asylum Annual, Greg Boyd Editor, Bay Area, CA
1980 The Woodstock Times, NY
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