1970- 1983

“we never lived in a time
When mythology was possible”
W. Stevens, A Mythology Reflects Its Region


1970 School of Visual Arts
I went to the School of Visual Arts in 1970 and attended Skowhegan in 1972.


I was trained as a figurative artist, having worked for the artist, Paul Georges and knowing Fairfield Porter and Jane Freilicher in the 1970’s out on Long Island.











I knew as many abstract painters, a girlfriend was assistant to Helen Frankenthaler.
It became an idea to me to add an image back to Abstract Expressionism.





I had a painting studio in Tribeca, and worked building Soho lofts doing sheetrock to make money. I was teaching in California in 1980 through 1983, going back and forth.