This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he creates paintings, many of them bleak subjects, that focus on the disconnect that people feel from each other in modern society, which is not rooted to communities.
Some of his work has religious imagery and addresses the fears people have of unmediated experiences. He has been much influenced by Old Masters such as Bruegel, Durer, and Bosch and among recent artists he admires are Paul Cadmus, George Tooker, and Reginald Marsh. However, he says the most powerful influence on him has been R. Crumb, a comic book artist and the one whose work first got him interested in narrative painting.
He studied art at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and later at the New York Academy of Art in New York City. |
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