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Welcome to my fine art web site.
I appreciate your interest in my work and welcome your
feedback.
The world is a beautiful place - full of light, sound, color and life.
It nurtures us and gives us hope with each sunrise.
I create art to share this beauty and to affirm my innate hope and optimism.
Throughout my life art has been an essential component to counterbalance my technical training and work.
I love photography and painting. These are related visual arts and each have their virtues.
To me photography is about the precision of line and the memory of a moment,
while painting is about the ambiguity of space and the memories of a lifetime.
Each art can take us to different places.
I do not want my paintings to imitate photographs,
nor for my photographs to imitate paintings.
Rather I want for my paintings to show how my hand and eye interpret a scene
and give it new meaning.
I want for my photographs to show a clearly observed moment.
I am an optimist. I like to give myself hope and to share that hope with others
through a poetic and lyrical view of the world.
Who am I?
I was born in Puerto Rico and grew up as an army brat in various communities including
El Paso, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Newport News, Virginia. I received
my bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech and my doctorate from Yale University, both
in Physics. I worked in Allentown, Pennsylvania, for AT&T Bell Labs, then Lucent
and Agere Systems as a computer scientist.
Starting in 1995 I began to take
painting classes at the Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA. There I studied oil painting
under Dana Van Horn. I was amazed at how
much my skills in seeing color improved as a result.
Most recently I have been studying egg tempera with Mavis Smith of New Hope, PA.
I love the control and luminosity that I can achieve with this technique.
I've had one man shows at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois and at the Banana Factory in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I've also participated in several group shows. One of my prints was
selected for a Smithsonian Institute traveling exhibit on infrared photography.
This summer we'll be showing our egg tempera paintings at the
Kutztown Pennsylvania German Festival, June 28 - July 6, 2008.
Please stop by and say hello.
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