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I am a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. Trained as a painter I am a practicing photographer while still continuing my work in painting.
In the mid seventies, I received a traveling fellowship from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and spent two years working my way around the world overland spending most of my time in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Far East. I feel fortunate to have been able to visit Iran and Afghanistan before recent wars and revolutions. My interest in the natural world also took me to Central America and Peru during the 1980's and 90's where I studied flora and fauna of the tropical forest canopy under the guidence of world reknowned naturalists and biologists.
Also during the 1970's & 1980's I showed extensively in the New England Area and was represented by the Cutler/Stavaridis Gallery and the Zoe Gallery in Boston where I had several solo exhibitions. My work also was in many significant group exhibitions; at the DeCordova Museum, Fitchburg Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Newport Art Museum, Art Institute of Boston, and Northeastern University.
In early 1990's I was retained by Michel Roux of Carillon Importers as an 'Absolut' Vodka artist and my paintings were reproduced in USA Today, Connoisseur Magazine, Arts and Antiques, and Forbes Magazine.
My work is on permanent display in the Church of St. Denis, Tour Tour, France; Carillon Importers, Teaneck, NJ; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Bank of Boston; and Nichols Institute, Los Angeles, CA. My work is represented in numerous private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
I am drawn to animals and the natural world as inspiration for my work both in painting and in photography. I appreciate animals as subject matter in my photographs for their lack of artifice and the immediacy of their presence. This often goes unnoticed in our observations of creatures other than humans. As a subtext there is an underlying fascination with a darker side; decay, death, and abandonment.
I see my painting as multi-layered dreams or an expression of moments during our waking life where one bears both conscious and unconscious thoughts and visions. On the other hand I look at my photographs as simple everyday observations; simple moments perhaps in their own way revealing the unseen or the layered. I expect a good piece, be it painting or a photograph to take on a life of its own and bear up to repeated scrutiny like a book that can be read and re-read. In my work I like to see any or all of the following: layers of meaning, ambiguity, sensuality, lusciousness of surface or texture, beauty and its fragility, instability, hope, paradox, and the puzzle of time.
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