My visual work is grounded in sustained material practice. I work primarily through painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, with sound, performance, and film emerging as extensions of the studio. The work develops through attention to surface, scale, rhythm, weight, and duration.
My cognitive process originates in drawing. Pencil and ink on paper form the generative, sensual, and retinal ground from which all subsequent work emerges. Drawing functions as both perception and thought: a site where looking becomes structure, and where form is discovered through sustained contact with the page. Larger painted and sculptural works retain this origin, carrying the intimacy, pressure, and tempo of the drawn line into scale.
I was trained as a visual artist before I could read, raised by professional artists for whom drawing was a daily and essential discipline. My formative influences include decades-long mentor–protégé relationships with two of the most consequential draftsmen in the American tradition, Larry Rivers and Hilary Knight. From them I absorbed a rigorous understanding of line as an instrument of intelligence—capable of wit, gravity, speed, and ethical precision.
I am of Abenaki descent, and indigenous cosmology informs the structural logic of the work. Ancient iconographic systems derived from water, movement, and cyclical time enter through form and repetition, operating as organizing principles embedded in the visual field.
The work occupies liminal zones between abstraction and figuration, perception and embodiment, hand labor and constructed systems. Painted surfaces, sculptural forms, and constructed instruments are treated as contiguous objects, each bearing the trace of process and use. Wearable and kinetic elements extend the visual language into space, registering movement as mark.My transmedia art operates in the space between ecology, engineering, painting, drawing, sculpture, alternative energy, dramatic text, projected visuals, dance, trans-genre music, performance art, new technologies, film and sculptural costuming.
I transgress the distinction between abstraction and representation/ male and female/spectacle and solitude/child and adult/sound and vision/science and spirituality.
I explore ways in which my Total Art Synthesis multidisciplinary art can have social impact.
I invite community participation and engagement.
My community service is an integral part of my artistic practice.
