Artist Bio

“I was born and raised in Indiana, and lived all over the state – from Ft. Wayne to the Kentucky border. I like to believe that it’s no longer a part of me, but then I hear my Midwestern accent. 

Indiana is a place of great beauty, and I disappeared into nature there. Deep, silent woods in Ft. Wayne, crisscrossed by canals and orchards, teeming with life. The infinite cornfields mid-state, hillsides in Salem that opened up into caves that ran with clear, frigid water, under every rock a home for brightly colored salamanders.

The first place where I remember us living was an apartment located in the middle of a large, busy vegetable farm, where I played king of the hill with a dozen or so Black and Mexican migrant worker kids. After the farm, we lived only in segregated, white neighborhoods where the culture was authoritarian and more or less hostile towards art, artists, and self-expression.

But my mother was related to author Kurt Vonnegut, so in that context there was some acknowledgement of art at home. I took particular notice of the awe and fear that relatives had for Vonnegut and his art, and how it had allowed him to escape to the more welcoming NYC.


I inherited my drawing talent from my father, who had been a navigator on bombers during WWII- which led to him becoming part of the Nagasaki Atom Bomb crew.

I studied fine art at Carnegie Mellon University, and have exhibited art continuously since the early 1990’s.

After leaving Indiana I lived in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, and currently maintain a studio in Jersey City, New Jersey.