CURRICULUM VITAE
1976
Born in Goshen, New York
1980s
Raised in Monroe township, upbringing shaped by the lens of late 20th century’s notions in suburbia and academic betterment.
- experiments with cartooning.
- experiments in video/crafts/design.
- Senator Ben Gilman selects watercolor for permanent installation in Library of Congress.
1993
Attends New York State Summer School For the Arts in Fredonia, New York.
- experiments with performance art.
- artist Randy Williams pivotal in enlightening his potential.
- painting purchased by Albright-Knox museum
1994
Moves to 57th Street and pursues bachelors of fine art entering School of Visual Arts where popular culture motifs and mid-90s aesthetic affects his artforms.
- work plays upon formal manipulation of paint medium mediating contemporary angst.
- makes arrangements to stay in painter, Jack Whitten’s studio courses for the duration of four years.
- Jeanne Siegel, chair of department, elects to hang his painting in her office. Siegel’s course on Jackson Pollock enables him to join her for a tour of his studio in Springs, which has a great effect on him.
- S.V.A. experience is rife with instructors largely late 70s New York artists invested in a life of ideas galvanizing him to the calling.
1998
Elects career in art education basing much of his theory on Victor Lowenfeld’s groundbreaking work.
- mirrors the professions of his parents, his father a prominent art teacher.
- works directly with artist Whitfield Lovell in East Harlem on comprehensive field trip arts program to the American Museum of Natural History.
1999
Acceptance into the Steinhart school of education through New York University for his masters degree. For two summers thereafter, studies abroad in the Italian city of Venice.
- afforded ample room for the actualization of hereditary resonance in his art.
- experiments with installation and sculpture.
2003
Thesis exhibition in Washington Square East gallery consists of manipulated plastic toys serving to divest the artist of childhood tropes.
- comes under the wing of Angiola Churchill, Professor Emeritus.
2003-2010
Takes up live-work model in apprenticeship to Churchill, maintaining residence with her in Soho and traveling for nine years.
- continues teaching in high needs, inner-city locations, first, East Harlem, later, the South Bronx.
- dedicates his career to the idea: individuals shaped by combinations of cultural trajectories, regardless of social status or intellectual stature, needn’t be deprived of a creative life and the best pedigree art education has to offer.
- engenders a strengthened connection to his work, able to affirm pride in himself, art reflects a strive for discipline.
- search for line in his art, turns to monoprint and drawing. At times baroque, decadent and exuberant, nevertheless strict period of high contrast, black and white drawing.
- represented by Oogie art gallery, midtown, Manhattan.
2010
Begins relationship with Mexican American, San- Antonio transplant, Adrian Noriega, marrying in 2016.
- Noriega provides a cultural compass pointed away from Europe toward a vast expanse of American identity in forms and colors.
- style flourishes, muted colors, lines and organic form dominates compositions.
- begins spending summer out at the end of Long Island beset on all sides with inspiration to return to paint.
- 2015 begins taking classes at the Art Students League on 57th street.
- course work with artist Frank O’cain provides the right combination of support and insight to begin formal abstraction.
- invests in articulating studio space out east. Begins working in the languages of pure form and color through oil paint.
2017
Becomes full-time member of the league and investigates working with goldleaf.
- converts garage on property into working studio.
2018
Offered monitor position under O’Cain for ‘Drawing, Painting, Color, Design, Structure Course’, abstracting from the model.
2020
Achieves synthesis with varied creative elements of past in remote learning through online instruction out from studio in East Hampton.