About

I am a painter and educator dividing my time between New York and Providence, where I am a Senior Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design.

I have been making my own paint for almost thirty years. My early work was encaustic, but for the past ten years I have been working with an egg tempera emulsion (egg yolk, oil, and damar varnish) similar to that used in Europe in the 15th century. The luminosity of the color and the control inherent in the medium is essential to the expression of my ideas.

My work has been for many years an expression of a sort of anti-narrative. The idea of narrative is pervasive, but the nature of the narrative is elusive. In essence, painting about not knowing what is happening.

For the past three years I have been focused on the study of clouds and the atmosphere. Occasionally, the landscape will intrude.

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1963 and recall watching the river burn when I was very young. I was raised in Baltimore, Maryland and studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz and then the Rhode Island School of Design.