I was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1946.

 

         I began my brief formal study of art in 1965, my most influential teacher being James. F. Parker, who eventually headed the Parsons School of Design campus in Paris. I acquired two seemingly contrary emphases that have dominated my artistic life: commitments to both abstraction and to figurative re-presentation. The two are one and the same to me. All my work is to some extent figurative. It is my belief that the most powerful works are those that, in some way, reference human form.

 

        It was as an abstract painter that I first drew public notice – with the showing of two “Mescaline Monster” paintings at the Denver Art Museum in 1973. A series of one-person and group shows continued this mode through the early 1980s. Interspersed in this schedule were exhibits of more forthrightly figurative work, including pieces shown in a number of major regional shows.

 

        I collaborated with the late Kip Farris in the 1970s on a number of projects in the Denver area, including several large-scale murals, and we opened 1418, one of the Mountain West’s first alternative galleries — a venue at which a number of now noted regional artists showed work.

 

         In 1986, after exhibiting work in Colorado, New Mexico and California, I left Denver for a secluded rural location, showing only sporadically in other states, with a prominent, major exhibition in Culver City, California, in 2002.

 

           My most recent exhibitions – one-person and group - have been at SHY RABBIT Contemporary Arts in Pagosa Springs, Colorado – one of the West’s most unique contemporary art spaces.

            A full CV is available upon request.