Education:
Bachelor
of
Fine Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1984
Masters of Fine Arts,
Brooklyn
College, 1987
Exhibitions:
Valley National Bank,
Wayne,
NJ, 1986
Ridgewood Institute, 6th
Regional Open Jury Show, 1986
Grumbacher Emerging Artist
Show, Gregg Galleries, NY, 1987
Brooklyn College Alumni
Exhibition, Brooklyn College, NY, 1994
Ramsey Library Exhibition,
Ramsey, NJ, August 1995
Group Exhibition at
Methodist
Church of Tucson, November 1995
Displayed on
www.monkeybox.com-
as of 1999
Packanack Lake Society Art
Show, Wayne, NJ, April 2001
Chester Fine Art Show,
Chester,
NJ, June 2001
Lena DiGangi Gallery,
Totowa,
NJ, November 2001-One person show
Nexus Gallery, New York,
NY, “Small Works”, January 31, 2002
Lambert Castle, Paterson,
NJ, “Group show”, September, 2004
YMHA, Wayne NJ,One person
show, October 2005
Wayne Public Library, WAA
member show, November 2005
Lundbeck Corp. Ramsey, NJ
"Synaptics Gallery" One person show, Februrary 2006
Rittenhouse Square Fine
Art Show - Philadelphia, PA, June and September, 2006
Bloomsbury
Art Festival- Bloomsbury, NJ, September,
2006
Awards:
Grumbacher Emerging Artist Silver Award, Gregg Galleries, NY, 1987
Publications:
Interview with Michael Coates from Advanced Electric Drive Transportation- Featuring my Painting of CA Route 1 http://evworld.com/interviews2/mcoates1.html
Artist Statement:
My works are predominantly landscapes showing my fascination with rock formations, mountains and water. They represent private, simplified spaces derived from and inspired by nature. I like to find pleasing and repeating patterns of shapes and contrasting colors. Building rich surfaces by layering and scraping with a palette knife has become and integral part of my painting process. Oil paint lends itself for this technique. My use of vivid, rich color is for my personal expression. I work on site in New Mexico, New York State and New Jersey. Painted outdoors, they are immediate inspirations derived from nature but not necessarily realistic. Some are night or dusk paintings executed with Gouache on gessoed paper.
Simultaneously, I’ve worked on a series of still lives and interiors that play with hidden spaces. A view within a view is played off against texture and transparency of fabrics. Interiors spaces are juxtaposed against exterior spaces. A recurring theme of duality, good and evil, together and apart have been an integral part of my self-portraits, still lifes and interiors. This body of work is well thought out and painted over a longer period of time allowing the layering and glazing of paint.