For the past ten years I’ve worked exclusively in abstraction and oils. The abstraction frees me up to explore wonder: I wonder what would happen if I did this and so on. The oils ground me; they have a earthy, sensuous quality that heightens the experience of play. Of each body of work, the most recent, the bands, allows me to focus on the event of the painting without getting caught up in issues of picture making. In this way the experience remains fresh, focused, and flightworthy. I am looking to preserve a moment in amber. Paint can do this. Recently I’ve enjoyed the immediacy of working in pine to make sculpture.

I had the good fortune to grow up in Rome in the early 60's and learn from some great painters. Just being around artists and in their studios everyday was an education. I started showing at the age of ten, and received my first write up in the Rome Daily American(1964). After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in painting in 1976, I went to New York, and enjoyed very much the same experience that I had in Rome. I showed at PS1, Washburn, and the Crispo Gallery and was written up in the New York Times Magazine and ARTS. Eventually I settled in Boston in 1990 after traveling a great deal, and now have a studio in Lincoln and Truro with my wife, Stacey, and four children. Creiger-Dane and the Nielsen Gallery in Boston have handled my work, which has been reviewed in the Globe. MORE