Influenced by Brooklyn, cartoons, architecture and the kinetic structure things. Media has influenced the constantly changing surfaces that are worked upon. Synthetic, clear, moving and simple. No hierarchies are implied. Lines and respect for their changing integrity are what the practice is. My recent public work creates a convergence between graffiti, coding and the simple deduction of everyday language. These urban hieroglyphics appear to be simple, but on second glance they illustrate a wildly animated library of dialogues, notes, words, architecture, math and random visual connectors. Because of their pictographic nature, they are very inclusive and can be easily read by anyone. The walls are kinetic maps. They are basic black and white blueprints of the specific sites and subjects that they depict

My process is similar to that of a journalist. I gather information, do research, walk, talk and engage people; then make a dossier of words, elements and interests. I then take this gathered information and begin to draw pictographic symbols of language. This language becomes a permanently embedded tale that reflects the tenor of the information gathered. My process is instantaneous and kinetic and is inextricably linked to my history of growing up on Brooklyn Streets.

I grew up in Brooklyn and earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art. I have exhibited nationally including the Brooklyn Museum, been recipient of the Pollock Krasner Grant, The Oberman Center Collaborative grant, The Robert Motherwell painters grant and have been a fellow at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and have been in residence ten times at the Macdowell Residency, NH.

In 2019 I was awarded the Saint Gaudens life time achievement award at the Cooper Union School of Art of and was an inductee into the Cooper Union Alumni Hall of Fame.

I have recently been awarded a PHD in Humane Letters by Ursinus College following the creation of the Ursinus Smokestack, completed in 2020 and was the Commencement speaker for the class of 2020.