His abstract
mixed media paintings utilize urban cast offs
such as tape, rope and electrical wrapping. Over the past decade
the work has
been featured in numerous solo and group exhibits in
New York (Threadwaxing Space, The Studio Museum in Harlem,
Atmosphere Gallery, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Christiane Nienbager
Contemporary Art, Wilmer Jennings Gallery,
Cinque Gallery and others), London (Gas Works Gallery),
Berlin (Kunsthuse Tacheles), Munich (Kunsthandel Leidel)
and has been included in major corporate and public
collections in the US and abroad.
He has received
significant awards including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant,
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the
Edward Mitchell Bannister Society’s Artistic Achievement
Award. He has been an Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum
in Harlem and the
International Artist-Workshop in Capetown South
Africa. He teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and
Cooper Union.
