About

1967-1968

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1967 - My first sale
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1968 - Works in progress

1973-1974

My first one man show was in Croton, New York at the Village Gallery in 1973. I was eighteen. The show was entitled: New Concepts in Pointillism. There were seven sales, among them still lifes I executed by dipping Q-tips in colored inks and overlapping the daubs for the myriad tones that resulted.

Moved to my new studio on twelfth street in the East Village to attend Cooper Union in the fall.

1974 - Leave of absence from Cooper to pursue my own work. Large pointillist canvasses and colorist machines #1 - 6 during this period. Continued my studies with friend and mentor, Jack Rabinowitz who first trained me in figure drawing and painting.

1975

Resumed studies at Cooper Union under Dore Aston, Paul Resika, and Hans Haacke.

1978

Awarded a Yale Fellowship to study art at their summer campus in Norwalk, Conn. There I studied painting and graphics in my junior year. Continued my work on Wildflowers of the Hudson Valley.

1979

My second solo show was while I was attending Cooper Union in my senior year. At commencement I was invited to display my many colored boxes and constructions in Cooper’s Houghton Gallery for public exhibition. Graduated with the Sarah Cooper Hewitt Award.

Hung my mural: "Ordering Primal Soup" in Cooper's Foundation building lobby. This major effort was a sixteen foot watercolor and graphite painting done on masonite panels behind engraved glass. It took almost nine months to complete in sections and was finally assembled in it's entirety and lent for display in the Art School for the following year.

1983

Moved to the Fingerlakes Region in New York where I started building my home and studio on Seneca Lake. Continued work on “Wildflowers of the Hudson Valley” along with local landscape watercolors and oils.

1989

Had show in Ithaca, New York at the Inner Visions Gallery; my Color Machines were featured.

1993

Fingerlakes Studio with full scale Room Divider
Sedemental Journey

1996

One Man Show at the Cedar Arts Center in Corning. Three sales resulting. Two panels of the 1979 mural “Ordering Primal Soup” (Summer and Spring) to the Corning collection. A laminate study “Jungle” was also sold.

1997

Relocated to Pennsylvania where I would set up a new and larger studio/shop.

2003

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Entered Silvermine Artist Guild Competition with a favorable review in the New York Times for my oil painting, "Old White Oak", which sold shortly after.

2004

Solo show at the Hiram Halle Memorial Gallery, Pound Ridge, New York. The show was titled: “Aesthetic Polemics”. Four sales resulted, including the Primal Soup Panel, “Autumn”

2005

Enter Katonah Museum’s competition “Artistic Fragments” and have two piece selected out of the two thousand entries. Shown there was my animated short film called: Paradise/Perfidy which was displayed on a monitor on a continuous loop showing how Heaven turned to Hell. And another related piece that I call a “machine” that was also polemical in nature called “The Debate”.

2008

Participated in group show: A Weekend in Chelsea, at the A.I.R. gallery in NYC.

2009

Participated in group show: Forest of Possibilities in Pound Ridge, NY.

2010

One man show at Gallery in the Park titled:"Affinities", in Pound Ridge, New York. Major installation of my most recent work featuring the World is My Oyster, a one-year effort which established a new high watermark for ornate detail in my art. Two sculptures sold.

Current

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Photo: Andrea Killam
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Photo: Andrea Killam

Continued work on rock and wood assemblage and mixed media projects, with an increased focus on the paleontological messages and mediums inherent in my art.