I was born in New York. Went to Art Students League as a kid, Rhode Island School of Design BFA, Yale for graduate school MFA
The consistent elements in my paintings and drawings are color and the obvious presence of the hand. A work may evolve from hearing or playing music, from something I see or read, or from experiences I have had or witnessed in the worlds of others. The first of many paintings I made of a dog measured 8’x 6’ and was of my own dog when she was a year old.
The first painting of the many I have made of people was a result of a dear photographer friend who convinced me that her baby daughter was a cute as a dog--and she was.

The form of the paintings may vary, be they of dogs, people, birds, cats, diagrams, lists, charts, CAT scans and MRIs—and I often include several of these in one work. But in the end, the line of a painting, the sense of place, a presence, a time—all, including me, are slaves to color.

I sometimes make my own pigments in order to execute my vision—which can be very precise, and in the process of painting something may happen that informs it, producing a different outcome. One of the great pleasures of working with a brush and pigment lies within the alchemy of mixing with the unknown.