In telling a story - in print, imagery, or song an artist walks a tightrope balancing personal viewpoint, interpretation, and individual expression with the work’s accessibility to a wider audience.

As a studio artist and photographer working out of my home town of New York City, my abstract work seeks to explore new aspects of cubism--specifically to tell a lengthy or complex story by combining aspects of narrative and analytic cubism. Analytic cubism’s exploration of multiple perspectives and views of a single space or image can be translated into multiple representations of a single character or space at different times in a chronology. Thus, on a relatively small canvas, a long and interwoven fable with many characters may be told.

My process is much like the stream of consciousness writers. I do not work from sketches, but rather try to harness a feeling and allow the story and imagery to unravel. It has always felt much like reading a book just as it’s being written.

As a photographer, I focus primarily on architecture and interiors, though I have worked in fashion and find it always to be an exciting counterpoint to my usual subject matter. Travel and nature photography are a personal passion that I hope to maintain for the rest of my life.

My work in photography has become an integral part of my painting, informing ever changing insights into color and space. Concurrent with my abstract work, I have produced several realist cityscapes allowing me to investigate perspective, space and light in an entirely different but complementary idiom. In this area, my method differs, but the art itself remains true to a fundamental exploration of space and light.