Autobiography 

Currently my interests run to visual expressions on socioeconomics, politics, and the human welfare and condition. I've been using clothing patterns for decades now in lieu of the human figure. The patterns, for me, have some of the attributes of humanity. I love the fragility, the translucency/transparency, and the fact they are mutable. When the patterns are taken as a whole, I love the extreme frugality in the use of space, as well as the very measured linear quality.

More recently in the past few years I've not limited myself to the use of patterns. So that my visual approach has looked to other visual forms of expression; in painting, photography and sculpture.

In expressing my art I've tried to be aware of my own emotional and intellectual reaction to seemingly ubiquitous beliefs, values, but mostly social, economic, and political interactions.

It is my desire to make my art not about me but about the milieu in which we live and our human interactions in it.

I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge my philosophy in art is founded on my early mentor and, whom I now consider a colleague, Roland Reiss.

Much of my art background is due to my studies at the University of Colorado in painting, drawing, sculpture, art history and philosophy. I received both my BFA and MFA there, as well as a teaching assistantship, and receiving a graduate fellowship instructing at both the Boulder and Denver campuses.

Later, teaching positions involved;  A Visiting Lectureship in Sculpture, Drawing, and Painting at the University of Kansas, as well as University Preparatory Academy, Seattle, and The International School, Bellevue, Washington.

Exhibitions include local, regional, national, traveling, and international venues; with  awards and inclusions in articles and catalogues.

Before my university education I served in the United States Armed Services in communications and cryptography; stationed in the United States, Korea, and Japan.

My early years where spent in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas. I grew up there with my brother and my single mother. Part of my early schooling was at a Catholic boarding school for boys, a Catholic Middle School, then later Jesuit High School in Dallas, Texas. It was in my early years, and all during this time I developed and maintained my love of, and the need of, being expressive visually.

See my resumé for more information.