The best ideas for the work I create I think of while commuting on my bicycle ride from home, work and studio. I grew up in Colorado; prairie dogs, ferrets, snakes and coyotes inhabited the fields where I had once played. As an adult, I watched my familiar surroundings turned into strip malls, parking lots and housing tracts. I want my artwork to address the environmental changes I have witnessed in my own lifetime.
I attended SUNY College at Purchase where I studied printmaking and book arts. Upon graduation I worked as a monitor for Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop. I later set up a printmaking studio called Plotzing Press.
I have had a chance to show my work in several galleries in New York City and in other countries. My work is in the collections of The Library of Congress, Yale University, The New School and The Museum School in Boston.