Hello and welcome.
I was a performing artist in my 20s. At Purchase College I had an opportunity to act in, to "live within," the worlds and words of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, and other greats of the theater.
Some years after graduation, while working at a full-time non-artistic career, I gravitated to the visual arts. I've been painting for approximately 18 years and taking photos of many types for longer. I retired recently and have had time to put this site together.
Making visual art is my attempt to make sense of our mysterious and often-baffling world, and to survive in it. I find it to be both therapeutic and gratifying--when I'm exploring and creating, and then when things go "right", it is so gratifying. When things aren't going right, I change direction often. Many times my finished paintings don't resemble what I started with at all. Half the time there are 3 paintings beneath the visible one.
I'm particularly excited about my African safari, Block Island, Joshua Tree, and Jones Beach Dunes photos.
I also feel really good about my Art photos and would love to have a show of large prints of both my Beach and Guardrail series.
All images on the site, if clicked, will enlarge. If you know you're drawn more towards photography than abstract painting, please access my photos before viewing the paintings. My hope is that you'll also view the paintings. I've heard from some people that they sometimes see a kinship between my photos and paintings.
I enjoy living in New York City and partake of its numerous cultural offerings; if someone has eclectic tastes (music of all genres, modern and classical dance, museums and galleries, art films, theater, opera, etc.) there is probably no better place to spend one's life. From my house I have only a 1/2 hour train ride into midtown Manhattan, and in the other direction a 1/2 hour drive to Atlantic Ocean beaches, where I swim and body surf.
I want to thank my late mother, Elizabeth, who fell in love with the arts at a young age (on a 1930s high school field trip from rural New Jersey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan), and then exposed me to numerous arts (museums, opera and ballet) as well as the beauty of the natural world (sunsets, flowers, landscapes and animal life).
I enjoy living in New York City and partake of its numerous cultural offerings; if someone has eclectic tastes (music of all genres, modern and classical dance, museums and galleries, art films, theater, opera, etc.) there is probably no better place to spend one's life. From my house I have only a 1/2 hour train ride into midtown Manhattan, and in the other direction a 1/2 hour drive to Atlantic Ocean beaches, where I swim and body surf.
I want to thank my late mother, Elizabeth, who fell in love with the arts at a young age (on a 1930s high school field trip from rural New Jersey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan), and then exposed me to numerous arts (museums, opera and ballet) as well as the beauty of the natural world (sunsets, flowers, landscapes and animal life).