Short Bio
EDUCATION: 1973. MFA DEGREE: Columbia University, School of the Arts, Magna cum laude, Motion Picture directing, Thesis: Feature Length Screenplay, NY1969. FILM STUDIES: the University of Cincinnati, Graduate School of Media Communications (Danforth Fellowship), Cincinnati, OH1968. BA DEGREE: the University of Cincinnati, School of Design, Art and Architecture: Design and Advertising, Cincinnati, OH EXHIBITIONS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS: 2022 EXHIBITOR: CROWDED: THE BALTIMORE CITY JAIL, BIPOC, Buckham Gallery’s National Juried Exhibition, Flint, MI. 2021 EXHIBITOR: LIBERTY DEFINED, Of An Era International Juried Exhibition, The Art Effect at the Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY. 2021 EXHIBITOR: NO MASSA/NO NASA, Art and Social Justices: Art for the People, By the People II, National Juried Competition at the Ellington- White Contemporary Gallery, Fayetteville, NC. 2020 EXHIBITOR: CROWDED: THE BALTIMORE CITY JAIL, Redcat Calarts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, LA, CA. 2020 EXHIBITOR: WHAT DIVIDES US AND WHAT UNITES US? Touchstone Gallery, International Juried Exhibit Washington, DC
Statement
My theories as a painter draw inspiration from my career as a professor and filmmaker, principles of cinematic montage--the collision of ideas: two or more fragments of nature juxtaposed in a frame of reference generate an intellectual thought--a third idea in the viewer's mind. Fragmented elements in my paintings show the dynamic relationships between the binary life vs. the full fidelity of freedom expected in a democratic society. The centerpiece of each work of art is binary (black & white) vs. the full visual fidelity (color) of life around us.
The first contact with art is a pedagogical window, an opportunity to encourage viewers to see the world from a new perspective. The art experience is a singular moment, the intersection between the image and the viewer, to challenge the viewer to deconstruct the world. In the pedagogical moment, the viewer derives a synthesis from the art, which can reconstruct 'good' and permanent change in the view. Change is the responsibility of art: not to maintain the status quo. The creation of art for any other reason is a waste of talent.
Resume / CV
EDUCATION:
1973. MFA DEGREE: Columbia University, School of the Arts, Magna cum laude, Motion Picture directing, Thesis: Feature Length Screenplay, NY1969. FILM STUDIES: the University of Cincinnati, Graduate School of Media Communications (Danforth Fellowship), Cincinnati, OH1968. BA DEGREE: the University of Cincinnati, School of Design, Art and Architecture: Design and Advertising, Cincinnati, OH
EXHIBITIONS AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
2022 EXHIBITOR: CROWDED: THE BALTIMORE CITY JAIL, BIPOC, Buckham Gallery’s National Juried Exhibition, Flint, MI.2021 EXHIBITOR: LIBERTY DEFINED, Of An Era International Juried Exhibition, The Art Effect at the Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY.2021 EXHIBITOR: NO MASSA/NO NASA, Art and Social Justices: Art for the People, By the People II, National Juried Competition at the Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery, Fayetteville, NC.2020 EXHIBITOR: CROWDED: THE BALTIMORE CITY JAIL, Redcat Calarts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts, LA, CA.2020 EXHIBITOR: WHAT DIVIDES US AND WHAT UNITES US? Touchstone Gallery, International Juried Exhibit Washington, DC
