Artist Statement

Art is an intellectual, automatic process involving the artist entire being. Irrevocable commitment to any one point of perspective is creative suicide and closes the mind to any new vision of the word. Through the stuffy of science I approach art with a problem solving mentality: observation, analysis and formulation of hypothesis. Mathematics has given me the experience of pure though and music and means of expressing it.

My work in construction has given me an appreciation of a variety of materials and methods of execution. Objects I construct from tar latex, cement, wax, and steel, along with traditional art materials are bound to the earth by gravity, subject to the same laws that govern the cosmos. One can feel the weight, experience the scale and physicality, sense the inertia and external force required to overcome it.

Like nature, art is a process and I am a participant drawing on intuition and flowing rhythms and the acceptance of change allowing the process to continue. If I refrain from imposing expectations on nature to be profound, relevant, or analytical, I might not have those exportations of art. Neither nature nor the artist makes special objects rather the product is an effect that has survived its cause.

EDUCATION:
MFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia , PA
BFA – Livingston College/Rutgers University, Piscataway , NJ

AWARDS;
2001 – Pennsylvania Council on the Arts SOS Grant
1999 – CDB Artist Development Grant

SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2005 - Peng Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
- Scribe Video Center , Philadelphia , PA
2004 - RX, Philadelphia , PA
- Peng Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
- Fringe Festival, Philadelphia , PA
2002 - Adrienne Theater , “Amputation Nation”, Philadelphia , PA
- Peng Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
2001 - Peng Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1999 - Lockjaw Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1998 - Lockjaw Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1996 - Two on South Street , Philadelphia , PA
- Supreme Bean, Philadelphia , PA
1981 - New Art Gallery , Elizabeth , NJ
1979 - Livingston Art Gallery , Piscataway , NJ

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 - International Assemblage Artist, Berlin , Germany
- “Black and White”, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
- “Visions of Liberty ”, National Constitution Center , Philadelphia , PA
2005 - Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
- City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2004 - “9 Artists – An Invitational Exhibition”, Cheltenham Art Center , Cheltenham , PA
2001 - “Dining Haul”, Truck Installation Project, New York , NY
- Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
2000 - “In the Hands of an Artist”, Wilmer Jennings Gallery , New York , NY (Director’s Choice)
- “Art for Artists’ Sake, Jefferson University , Philadelphia , PA (Best of Show)
- “The Banquet”, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
1999 - National Juried Exhibition at Muse Gallery, Philadelphia , PA
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia , PA
- “Show of Hands”, Moore College of Art , Philadelphia , PA
1998 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia , PA
1997 - “The Unbroken Line: A Centennial Exhibition”, PAFA, Philadelphia , PA
1982 - Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham , PA
1981 - Rittenhouse Arts Festival, Philadelphia , PA
1980 - Camden County Exhibition, Cherry Hill , NJ (Purchase Award)

PUBLICATIONS:
Old City Arts, Philadelphia , PA : OCAA, 1999
The Unbroken Line 1897 – 1997, Philadelphia , PA : The Fellowship of PAFA, 1997
Gallery and Studiio, Vol. 3 No. 1, NY , NY : Eye Level Ltd. 2000
In numerous local papers 1982-2004 including: Art Matters, Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly