My work embodies the advancing synthesis of tradition and technology and the evolving nature of image-making. I was trained as an oil painter in traditional B.A. and M.F.A. programs at the University of California, Los Angeles where I studied with and was exposed to the work of influential California artists including Robert Heineken, Richard Diebenkorn, John Baldessari, William Wegman, Ed Ruscha and others. In the late 20th century I discovered digital media and I spent the next decade or so using the computer as a virtual paintbrush. My digital works were rooted in abstract expressionism and assemblage of found virtual objects. My early digital works were included in the Museum of Modern Art New York’s “Museum as Muse” online exhibition, the Las Vegas Truly Virtual Art Museum and “The Petersburg Biennale of Computer Graphics” in St. Petersburg, Russia and many other exhibitions.

Graphics software programs evolved and became more intuitive. My use of them has developed into the type of immersion I previously experienced when painting with oils. I choose and adjust colors, move and edit shapes, apply tints and glazes and become completely engrossed in thinking visually about the image. My recent works have been displayed in the McNay Art Museum 2014 “Art to the Power of 10”; 2014 “Nuevo Arte” at the University of Texas San Antonio, 2014 “Spark” exhibition at San Diego Convention Center, and the 2015 12th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, University of Barcelona.

The submitted works are a blend of photography and digital painting employing a unique process that I developed over the years. The images invite the viewer to engage intimately with a dynamic moment in the environmental milieu. Colors are intensified and the forms are abstracted to express emotive qualities one experiences in nature. In addition to changes in color and texture I make subtle adjustments to lines and shapes so that each version is a one of a kind image. The images can be printed on different substrates: metal, cloth, wood, slate, vinyl. The tactile and visual qualities of the substrate merge with the visual image giving each print a unique identity that transcends both natural and digital media.

Recently I earned a Ph.D. degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A & M University, College Station. I have developed courses in visual design for colleges and universities and gave presentations on my educational research at the 2014 National Art Educators Association conference and at the 2015 College Art Association national conference. My publications include articles for the Association for Educational Communication and Technology, the International Visual Literacy Association and the Association for Advancement of Computing in Education a Currently I live in San Antonio and am a full time faculty member for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division