The imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon
— Borges
 

My art...

is about logic.  As soon as I feel familiarity with what I'm seeing, I must break it -- turn the canvas, add a vanishing point, enter the space anew.

Metaphors run rampant, and I do my best to ignore them.  
Stories of what I'm seeing run through my head, and I avoid falling in love with them for as long as possible.  
I think at some point it is inevitable, but by holding off, being evasive, pushing the boundary of my own ability to parse the marks, that striation of layers, sedimentation of possible avenues and past wholes, seems to give the work a dynamism and breadth.  
Each piece is a showcase of evolution, organically as possible.
With the hope of ending up somewhere unheard of.  

I strive to depict the incompressible that grows the more you give your eyes to it, but which can never be captured whole.

To create art that outruns our means of processing it, but by engaging with it, teaches us new ways to create connections.

Art that lets us earn new ways to see again, by spending time with it, being only quiet eyes.

Painting at the Bloomfield Little Italy Days

Liberty Avenue


picture thanks to Randall Roberts photography

With my work at the PPG Wintergarden -- Three Rivers Art Festival, 2015


The journey so far...

I am from Pittsburgh, and, besides two 10-month jaunts in Europe, one studying at the Marchutz School of Art in Aix-en-Provence, where I started down my path as an artist, and more recently, one generously supported by friends and backers, where I marauded most of the countrysides between Morocco and Bosnia, doing my best to avoid getting lice from Czech children, I have been here all my life.  

The work of that latter trip you can see here.  

Currently I am a member of the wonderful studio group, Radiant Hall.

And working on things.  Finding new avenues to explore.  Writing.  Drawing.  Cutting things from paper.  
Imagining many more things I may or may not ever do.  All with the hope of arriving at the point where my work resides in the homes of others, who can enjoy it and profit from it as much as I do.

L'ile Rousse en Corse, oil, 2011