How It Began
It all started in 1969, right after I graduated from high school and had to decide what to study in college. My father suggested architecture, and I followed his advice without much thought. However, I was hit by culture shock during my first architecture class. I was exposed to a world of imaginative and wondrous architecture and design. Halfway through my degree, my life took an unexpected turn. I stumbled upon two small photos (shown below) in Time Magazine of a man wearing a giant mask and another one of him with a broad smile, obviously having the time of his life. I didn't know who Picasso was then, but those pictures inspired me to discover the art world, which would eventually become my passion.
Then There Was Europe
A year after my first attempt at art, I joined a study abroad program with 40 other architecture students. I drew and painted daily during our six-week stay in Salzburg and a month-long trip through Yugoslavia, Greece, and Italy. I also traveled independently to Zurich, London, and Paris, seeing architecture and art I had only seen in books. During this trip, I met the love of my life, who would later become my wife.
After All of That
After graduation, my wife and I moved to Richmond, Virginia, where I prepared a portfolio to apply for graduate school in night school. We then moved to Rhode Island, where I earned my MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation, a good friend and I started a business doing set, costume design, and other art-related work. When he moved to Virginia, I started my design-build business, which began my career as a designer and contractor.
Although making art has always been important, exhibiting was never a priority. Obscurity is its own reward because it allowed me to develop a unique, eclectic body of work privately and out of the public eye. On this website, I'm displaying the range of my artwork to the public for the first time.
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