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My approach to art is philosophical rather than cerebral. I consider it a process of transformation. An image exists within me which must be expressed. I allow an opening through which the image may move from my soul to my mind for expression. The process of making the image can often be painful, like pulling thorns, as I pace back and forth like a caged animal until the opening occurs. In development, the art goes through considerable changes. Where I start is totally different from where I finish. There is something of the arbitrary evolution to life and my art. How I see things and how I react to them without the over-reaching fear and loathing of most people that cling desperately to notions and ideas that aren't their own. Nature and the Cosmos and Galaxies unknown are all basically made of the same principle, which is that creations are made by those elements that are there at that moment, that come together by chance and circumstance and if the timing is correct form into a new and different entity. Technical skill has never been important to me. Although I put myself through the same rigors of academic study as any art student, I did it on my own. I am entirely self-taught. In my journey through expressionism and traditionalism, I began to define my artistic style and philosophy. I have chosen primarily abstract expression because I believe it allows the individual viewers to reach inside themselves for their own inner response to the work. It affords me the opportunity to create an emotional response without being specific. Much like a philosophy should be absorbed as a purpose then used as a means to understand, I try to affect the viewer both visually and viscerally. I avoid the common practice of assembling images in an organized conveinent way so that the "look" of the painting is neatly packaged for mass consumption. I loathe the idea of lowered expectations both artistically and personally. -------------------------------------------------------------- I paint because I want to, but more than the end result of my work, it is the transformation that occurs through the process of painting and viewing the work which I enjoy. I was born in New Jersey back in 1964 and grew up in a place called Tenafly. A small town that was more like a wiegh station for people that worked in New York, full of gangsters and business execs, singing stars and TV personalities . At the present time I live in Los Angeles with my son Kristafer, being a single father and working artist has its merits as well as its limitations. --------------------------------------------------------------

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My approach to art is philosophical rather than cerebral. I consider it a process of transformation. An image exists within me which must be expressed. I allow an opening through which the image may move from my soul to my mind for expression. The process of making the image can often be painful, like pulling thorns, as I pace back and forth like a caged animal until the opening occurs. In development, the art goes through considerable changes.
Where I start is totally different from where I finish. There is something of the arbitrary evolution to life and my art. How I see things and how I react to them without the over-reaching fear and loathing of most people that cling desperately to notions and ideas that aren't their own. Nature and the Cosmos and Galaxies unknown are all basically made of the same principle, which is that creations are made by those elements that are there at that moment, that come together by chance and circumstance and if the timing is correct form into a new and different entity.

Technical skill has never been important to me. Although I put myself through the same rigors of academic study as any art student, I did it on my own. I am entirely self-taught. In my journey through expressionism and traditionalism, I began to define my artistic style and philosophy. I have chosen primarily abstract expression because I believe it allows the individual viewers to reach inside themselves for their own inner response to the work. It affords me the opportunity to create an emotional response without being specific. Much like a philosophy should be absorbed as a purpose then used as a means to understand, I try to affect the viewer both visually and viscerally. I avoid the common practice of assembling images in an organized conveinent way so that the "look" of the painting is neatly packaged for mass consumption. I loathe the idea of lowered expectations both artistically and personally.

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I paint because I want to, but more than the end result of my work, it is the transformation that occurs through the process of painting and viewing the work which I enjoy.

I was born in New Jersey back in 1964 and grew up in a place called Tenafly. A small town that was more like a wiegh station for people that worked in New York, full of gangsters and business execs, singing stars and TV personalities . At the present time I live in Los Angeles with my son Kristafer, being a single father and working artist has its merits as well as its limitations.

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