This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Originally from Los Angeles, he developed a life-long interest in the Planetarium, which he expresses in his conceptual paintings that includes telescopic landscape vistas and large arrangements of tiny portraits. He is especially fascinated by virtual nothingness, that which appears vast and endlessly deep or that which is perceived but not obviously visible. Some of his paintings are created from aerial photographs and have been the subject of a series called "Surveillance."
In the mid 1970s, he was painting rooms filled with technological equipment such as video cameras, receivers, and tape recorders, as well as landscapes with abstract figures and technology. But his landscape panoramas without figures brought him his primary attention.
He was raised in Beverly Hills and attended Beverly Hills High school but felt self conscious about his art talent and interest because it was not a popular thing with his peers. He studied economics at U.C.L.A. and knowing this pursuit was not for him, he joined the Peace Corps and then studied for six months at the California Institute of the Arts. From that time in the 1970s, he determined to be an artist and won a "Young Talent Award" from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 1972, he had his first solo show in Los Angeles at the Michael Walls gallery, and that same year he moved to New York City but set up a routine of spending his summers in Maine. He first lived in a loft in the West Village and became a part of group shows with well known artists such as Robert Mangold, Keith Sonnier, and Brice Marden. By the late 1990s, his studio was in a four-story town house in mid-town Manhattan. |
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