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My entry into the art world began in 1979, when I shifted from studying physics to pursuing art at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Though I changed disciplines, my interest in science has remained a consistent thread, and the interplay between objective and subjective experience continues to shape my work.

I developed my first cohesive body of work in New York City in 1987, shortly after completing an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania. Influenced by a graduate seminar on Cubism led by art historian Leo Steinberg, I approached painting as a form of phenomenological inquiry—documenting moment-to-moment perceptions of space through gesture, rhythm, and intuition. The musicality that informed these early works remains central to my practice.

A 1990 solo exhibition at the Middendorf Gallery in Washington, DC, marked an important early milestone, followed by inclusion in the 1994 Corcoran Biennial of American Painting. In 1995, I completed a second MFA, this time in digital art, expanding my tools for exploring spatial and perceptual concerns. Collaborative video installations with artist Gillian Brown culminated in a Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute in 1999.

While teaching digital art at Stetson University, I gradually returned to painting, integrating digital processes into a hybrid approach. This intersection of physical materials and digital manipulation became fertile ground for exploring illusion, ambiguity, and the fluid boundaries between virtual and real space.

Now based in Guerneville, California, I continue to pursue these inquiries, embracing optical and spatial illusion as a means of reflecting the layered, shifting nature of contemporary experience. My recent work engages the complexity of perception and the resonances between material presence and imagined space.