I’ve spent a lot of time wandering thru figurative deserts, searching for some undefined thing, but I never get any closer to an understanding of what’s going on here.  I sense an abyssal unlikeliness underlying everything.  I live with this mystery and it finds it’s way into my art.

While ‘artist’ has been my unvarying identity, I’ve made a side career of running down blind alleys.

Education: 

When I was eleven years old I saw Dalí’s “The Persistence of Memory” and instantly became a surrealist.

In early adolescence I had the powerfully formative/informative experience of living in Europe for three years.

I received a B. A. in biology from West Virginia University.

I weathered two years of medical school before I could admit to myself that I would never be able to pound my different peg into that ill-advised hole (not even with a sledge hammer)…. and I couldn’t stop making art.

I hold a BFA in sculpture from West Virginia University and an MFA in sculpture from the University at Albany.

I’m a self-taught draftsman and painter.

Lately I’ve plunged down a digital rabbit hole.  I only meant to design painting compositions on a computer, but then…. something else happened.  Blame it on the Cheshire cat.

I work in an antique farmhouse in rural western New England, where I live with my long-suffering wife, a black dog, three cats and a multitude of wild creatures. 

A compressed personal Art History: 

I don’t know who I am.  I’ve been a changeling, morphing thru a series of personae.  One constant:  I’ve been creating art from the time I learned to manipulate crayons.

I grew up leading dual, contrasting lives:  Appalachian country boy;  “Air Force brat”/world traveler.  Always curious, I liked taking things apart to see what was inside (family car engines, radios – no [re]assembly required).  My early experiments with electricity nearly finished me.  I survived…. somehow.  

Curated characteristics:

Transgressive (and self-censoring).
Believer in nature.
Pareidoliac.
Obsessive/compulsive.
Melancholic.
Dreamer.