CV, Education

Born August 8, 1931, Buffalo, N.Y.
Attended Art Institute of Buffalo, 1949-1950
Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1952-1955, 1959-1960, Ware Fellowship, 1955
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 1972-1974, BFA 1974
James Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelpia, 1974-1978, JD, 1978

Narrative Biography
     I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York and began drawing at a very early age. I attended the Art Institute of Buffalo for one semester and then went into the U S Army. I served in Korea and was discharhed with a Purple Heart in 1952.
     I studied painting and printmaking for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and was awarde the prestigious Louis M. Ware Fellowship for 1955. The same year the Academy purchased one of my paintings for the permanent collection.
      During the sixties I worked in commercial art, painting and making prints in the evening and occasionally exhibiting in Philadelphia.
      In 1972 I went back to school, earned a BFA at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and then a JD from Temple Law School in Philadelphia. In 1978 I went into private pactice with my wife Laura (also a lawyer) and worked as a trial lawyer for the next 29 years. I painted sporadically on vacation.
      In 2001, I started printmaking again and in 2003 I started painting gain.  I have exhibited in numerous group shows and  can supply a list of juried exhibitions and prizes upon request.

Statement
      Until very recently I painted in a realist manner in the tradition of the Pennsylvania Academy and the New Hope Imprssionists.These paintings become too restrictive. Since early 2005, I have been exploring more contemporary idioms. These paintings employ a semi-abstact style combining synthetic cubist and abstract expressionistic gesturation to explore the emotions, themes, and social mores common to all mankind by borrowing or appropriating symbols from contemporary media.