This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A resident of Nyack, New York from 1997, he became a landscape painter, especially of Pennsylvania and New York cityscape and river views. He was raised in New York and Pennsylvania near the Susquehanna River, and later lived in New York City where he did numerous paintings of the East River in a series called "Brooklyn Views."
He began his career in the early 1980s as part of a new art scene in downtown New York, working at two famous artist hangouts, Artists Space and the Kitchen, while continuing to paint on his own. His work at that time focused on post-industrial unhappiness. He influenced a new generation of painters away from total abstraction to semi-abstract landscapes and cityscapes that were beautiful in coloration, small scale, and rigorously painted to convey basic experiences of urban life such as fleeting views of evening light hitting the sides of buildings, traffic in the rain, and distant vistas across water.
Much of his work has horizontal skylines along bodies of water, and his cityscapes have compressed buildings, flags, and pieces of Americana such as quilts. He applies oil and acrylic paint in many layers, which creates a glassy surface. Frequently he paints en plein air, but he also works from photographs, and some viewers compare his work to the 19th century luminists. Most of his paintings are small, under twelve inches in size, and are placed in hand-carved frames.
In the late 1990s, he relocated from his native Pennsylvania to a large Federal style home with a view of the Hudson River in Nyack, New York. |
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