Though born in New York City, most of my childhood was spent in Europe. My parents took me to many countries and cities, where we visited museums. There a passion for painting took hold.
Later my interest in science and humanism led me to become a physician. After years of rewarding practice, I sustained a head injury, and my medical career was cut short. In 2017 I turned to painting and in 2021, to clay. Soon I was intensely involved in both.
The endless cycles of evil poisoning mankind compel me to bring them to light in many of my paintings and clay masks. I would like the viewer to walk away, at times, pondering the enigma of good and evil.
A full moon, appears in many of my paintings, symbolizing its steadfast witnessing over the ages, as well as its hapless sorrow at what it sees.
In my still lives, I hope the viewer will awaken to the possibility of finding beauty and transcendence in the smallest details.
My clay masks are attempts to capture a kaleidoscope of human experience: love, suffering, injustice, joy, disdain, and seduction to name a few.
We share a strange world, full of love and anger. In my work personages , flawed and fragmented, bubble up unbidden to the surface.