Growing up in Philadelphia infused my life with music, dance, history and ideals for social justice. Jazz was an  ideal way of being, with improvisation as a key to connectedness. Color and movement are one in the same for me and I am grateful to come from a long line of colorists, like Stanley Whitney with whom I studied at Tyler and whose training was informed by Josef Albers and Al Held. Like the Swedish mystic Hilma af Klint, I begin my paintings with emotive color derived from my practice of transcendental meditation. Influential artists like Robert Rauschenberg saw white as a color of potential. However, I feel the void of black as the origin of all life, the fertile soil. Metallic totems and luminous explosions emerge dramatically from the carbon black backgrounds almost like supernovas, or new cosmic energies in illuminated new worlds.

Like Hilma af Klint, I observe botany as simple Divine geometry in motion and I produce hundreds of prints and works on paper in order to build momentum for large scale work. I spent six years living and exhibiting in Egypt and now spend months yearly travelling and working in Ireland, Spain and Italy. This kinesis and search for man’s ancient past is an essential moving studio practice which layers texture, calligraphy, color and energy into my work. 

Fellow artist, Travis Childers said “These works come out of the uncertainty of our times, but then remind us of the regenerative forces of the natural world.  The spinning, active elements in the work references the big bang or whirling dervishes, or any action that spawns higher force.   A reminder that creation and rebirth come out of disruption and action, not tranquility.”

A lifelong mentor, abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart said, “Art transcends, transforms nature, creates a nature beyond nature.” like him, my paintings are inner landscapes, derived from the practice of transcendental meditation, where individual cells of living energy become nascent to the visible world.  It’s the energy of the potential of all things that keeps us connected—the silver thread of vibrancy. The new frontier for me is not outer space but illuminated inner space.