Start with a sprinkling of cartoons, anime, 3D animation, underground comics, and retro toys, add a dash of multiculturalism, political correctness, and loathing for customer service and you have a blend of joyful art that I call my own. I always try to move the viewer emotionally, in one direction or another. It’s all about the details, so take your time in viewing each piece. The art is deliberate. The message is thought-provoking.
The artist has observed pop culture through the decades and has embraced it as a black widow would devour her mate. Good timing, eh? Born October 29,1955, son of a Brooklyn mailman and a German Jewish x-ray technician, youngest of four children. With great awe, I remember listening to my mother tell of my grandfather’s stay in a concentration camp as well as her family’s escape out of Nazi Germany in the 1940?s. Our family was raised in Roosevelt and then Baldwin, NY. My father was a graduate of the Brooklyn Museum of art and was a great inspiration to all his children. My passion for art was created by watching my siblings draw every day. Soon it became almost impossible for me to take notes in class without creating some kind of drawing in my notebook or on my desk. Entering college, I decided to have the best of both worlds. Teaching and Art.
I started my education path at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque in 1973, majoring in art education. After 3 years of southwest living, I decided that I missed my friends and family too much. I finished my education in 1978 at Buffalo State College but had changed my major because the Art Ed department had not met my expectations at all. It was so clinical compared to the way I was taught at UNM. So I graduated with a BS in Graphic Design instead.
I have been particularly creative (and happy), spending most of my time in the studio drawing and creating works of art on non-conventional media. Most recently, I came in second place out of 140 entries in Munnyshow2 on 7/08/2006 at Uberbot in Winter Park, FL
