Crazy Scary Staircase Drawing

Born: Brooklyn, NY 1947 I started painting in the 1980's and took a hiatus for more than 20 years and picked up the brushes again in 2007. Stated showing again in 2009. The art I make explores the patterns, textures, and aesthetic tensions I see in manufactured objects – particularly within the confines of machinery and structures. When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, my neighborhood was near the elevated trains and I was especially attracted to the mystery and magic of the subways, city streets and exciting architecture of NYC. I was drawn to the art made by the ashcan school and precisionist artists and photographers of the earlier part of the 20th Century. And, although my style is a bit more contemporary, I think their influence is more and more evident in what I do today. I use my camera as my sketchbook, always looking for subject matter that intrigues me and makes a memorable impression. Then when transforming my reference into a piece of physical art, I make it my purpose to go beyond just a technical rendering, but also to infuse it with feeling, and I’m not happy until the art becomes an emotional experience for me, and hopefully the viewer. I think that’s what makes it art.