A fine artist living in Brooklyn NY.

The basis of my creations comes with a fluidity. The way ink bleeds into water, the way black saturates the white purity of silk. The way webs send out spindly fingers to weave and connect moments in time, memories. Suspension and water play important roles in my work. I was grasping at a notion of being suspended somewhere between danger and peace. Between death and living, falling or floating. The work has grown and changed over the years, beginning with ornamentation and design and evolving into integration, overlapping. A big part of my work is the process. I love it as much as the end result.

Lithography is an ancient method and somehow I feel connected with the past every time I send a brush stroke across the surface of the limestone, or twist the handle of the three hundred year old press. It’s a complicated process of drawing, etching the surface of the stone with acid, inking up the stone, and running the image through a press. The stone must be hand ground after each printing session in order to reveal a new clean surface to work on. Each final piece is a culmination of several days of work.

Screen printing or serigraphy is commonly used for the purpose of duplicating an edition. However, I get lost in the process of the printing and concentrate more on using the medium to make unique individual paintings. This method involves a screen, which must be imprinted with an image through photo emulsion. I paint the image on clear films, they get exposed onto a photo-sensitive screen and then they are ready to be used as stencils. Acrylic paint is then poured onto the screen and pressed through the stencils with a squeegee. The result is a thin layer of paint deposited onto the paper. I take this process and repeat it over and over again, moving the paper as I see fit, adding transparency or opaqueness. Each color is a different layer and each time the screen has to be washed out. Often, in one piece I have used 12 colors and four stencils which must be washed out with a power washer and exposed all over again. It truly is a labor of love.

Bookmaking is yet another process that is almost therapeutic. Cutting and folding each page, sewing the binding, measuring and gluing the endpapers and final cover. All the details one must pay attention to. It’s yet another ancient craft that we use everyday of our lives. I am still striving to find new and unique ways to push the definition of “book”. Book- shaped objects have been some of my favorite projects.