I have been a working artist for fifty years and, during this span of time, have pursued various ideas and approaches. Most of the pieces created during this period are now in private and museum collections.

Early in my career, I was highly influenced by Impressionism’s fascination with movement and the passage of time as crucial parts of the human experience.  With stylistic contrast, however, I used various graphic approaches to convey figurative images that carried a social theme.  In one well-known piece at the time, “Women Imprisoned” (see below), I used graphical elements as crude pixels to create an image that literally and figuratively conveyed the concept of women marching behind bars.

“Women Imprisoned”

Slowly this style evolved into one that placed much more emphasis on figurative realism.  I become more concerned with attempting to convey the poignancy of life by extracting events from the space-time continuum and portraying them as suspended in time.  Graphical backgrounds helped to create this effect.  “Telephone Booth” (see below) is from this body of work and is in the Zimmerli Collection at Rutgers University.  Again, much of this work is in private collections.

“Telephone Booth”

As I worked in this mode, I began to realize that the poignancy of life could be captured without the use of graphic and abstract backgrounds.  For example, “Fuzzy Dialogue” (see below), a diptych now in an important private collection, conveys an emotional moment that occurred between two people.

“Fuzzy Dialogue”

Of course, the importance of time and movement as variables re-surfaced as I was forced to confront our contemporary culture’s state of continuous motion.  I believe that we have lost the ability to punctuate time and that our individual experiences are no longer distinct, but instead blend into the miasma that is the passage of time.  Juxtaposing highly rendered backgrounds with blurred subjects in the foreground, my recent work attempts to convey a sense of speed and perpetual motion that is the basis of our present day reality.  “Bicycle” was on exhibit at the HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State University and “Union Square” is in the collection of the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary College.

“Bicycle”

“Union Square”

Until recently, I have created my work from the perspective of a passive observer.  Because of political events in our country and throughout the world, however, I have begun to include my own perspective, in the form of textual commentary and paint splatter (see “Marilyn” below).

“Marilyn”