About Me
My Background
I’m an artist with an artist’s drive to create – a dreamer with a dreamer’s desire to discover what could be – and a romantic with a romantic’s insatiable passion for squeezing everything I can out of this gift of life.
Although my MFA is in painting, my career day job was in advertising as an art director and creative director. In the evenings I continued to paint in my home studio. I retired from teaching advertising at SCAD, The Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah Georgia.
My work has been accepted into countless competitive juried shows such as at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show. and won many awards. I have had one man shows. The Butler Museum of Art purchased one of my paintings for their collection. And my work is in corporate and private collections across the country and Canada.
The evolution of my work
My style has evolved over the years from Neo Pop to my current California Hard Edge contemporary work. My favorite artists are James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselman. I am also drawn to the Surrealists. And this influence also overlays the subconscious tone of my work.
Neo Pop
My career in advertising has subliminally influenced the imagery
of my early Neo-Pop paintings. Today, I'm still driven to explore a visual language created when simple banal images collide.
Collision of Meaning
Every object has an assigned meaning. We all assign a slightly different meaning to these objects based on our experiences with them and the way that culture defines them. But these meanings are ingrained into our brains.
A new original idea is created when existing object meanings collide together to give new altered meanings to them. By placing imagery in situations unrestrained by logic, it’s possible to create new evocative juxtapositions that expand the boundaries of normal meaning.
This imbalance of common meanings is the prerequisite for my Collisions series, where the improbable defies common reality and is limited only by one’s interpretation and imagination.
I'm not trying to recreate beautiful representations of images – they are merely placeholders whose meanings are reframed when viewed collectively.
The Life of Shapes
Shapes are the basic building blocks of all design. So basic that they are robbed of any meaningful message. By making them the center of a story, they come to life. We are brought into the parallel universe where they are the primary inhabitants.
Just for fun, I included some early pencil drawings from my college days.