Bio
I was born in 1952, in Kansas City, Kansas. My interest in art began as a child observing my father draw and paint in our basement at our home in Lansing, Kansas. At seventeen I enrolled into a two year Commercial Art program in Salina, Kansas. After graduation I found employment at an architectural illustration studio in Kansas City Mo. This fortune of luck led me to the understanding of perspective, rendering and scale. I became obsessed and began collecting interesting books and taking portrait lessons. I opened a downtown studio/gallery in Leavenworth, Kansas but after several years, feeling the need to learn the anatomical figure my girlfriend and I moved to New York City in 1978 and I studied at the Art Students League, Salmagundi Club and private classes with Bill Weltman a fabulous anatomy instructor.
I was now confident placing figures in my work in any perspective and my fine art career was set in motion. I soon met Pat Carlson who became my agent and introduced my work to the national publisher and gallery chain Dyansen, painting mostly in the Art Deco style. Together we produced dozens of lithographs and serigraphs with shows at many fine gallery’s across the country. Hundreds of works of art later I slowly developed a strong desire for a break with tradition, my paintings have became experimental and rebellious undergoing a change in concepts and techniques I call “Prismatism”.