About
My Story.
I was born in New York City in 1970. With a preternatural gift for colors and textures, I began drawing, designing comic strips and murals at the age of 5. Influenced by my mother, a gallery artist herself, as a young child, I became a fixture at the Leo Castelli Gallery and Sydney Janis Gallery in New York City, where I was always enamored and transfixed by the harmonization of mediums that I observed in these gallery works. A harmonization that gives an animated vibrancy to the art I create today.
Growing up in both Great Neck and East Hampton on Long Island, I began experimenting in various mediums and often found myself directing my attention to mainstream entertainment and sports related subjects. Inspired by some of my favorite artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Patrick Nagel, my pop surreal vision, which balances detail, ambiguity, figurativeness, and abstraction, is quickly earning the respect of art collectors nationwide. The use of black and white outlines to offset bold but strategically placed strokes of bright-unexpected colors captures and adds to the energy and movement of my paintings.
I celebrate contemporary experience and revel in popular imagery, as reflected in the vibrant and exuberant images I have created for celebrities, entertainers, professional athletes, private collectors and companies worldwide.
Moving out of my comfort zone.
Abstract Expressionist painters explore new ways of creating art, reinvigorating and reinventing the medium. They change the nature of painting with their large, abstract canvases, energetic and gestural lines, and new artistic processes. Inspired by perhaps the most well-known Abstract Expressionist artist Jackson Pollock, I moved away from my comfort zone as a Pop Artist and put my own spin on Abstract Expressionism by tapping into the world of commercial aviation. Working at my private studio, The Drip Factory, in the shadow of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, I began experimenting with nontraditional materials, such as commercial-grade aviation aluminum, aerospace paint and scrap metal as brushes. These are the very same materials used by major airlines across the world. And that is how Jet Drip art was born.
I am passionate about helping others through my creativity. My greatest joy comes from watching dreams come to life through art, design and creative expression.
When I have time to breathe, I love to coach and play the greatest sport in the world, lacrosse. I have been a Varsity Lacrosse Coach at Decatur High School for the last 15 years and also play goalie for the Team Israel Masters and Mad Weasels Lacrosse Club (Atlanta).
