My artwork explores the visual environment that I live in while reinventing it through my sculptures, photographs and paintings. Originally trained as a classical musician, I make my art to move through space and time with rhythmic qualities which relate to my background in the performing arts. A second-generation artist, my art reflects the fleeting nature of our time on earth and our historically short opportunity to touch another human being such that self-reflection is inspired. I am currently working on a series of travel and nautical fine art photographs as well as a series of sculptures called the “Anna Maria” series. Anna Maria was Vivaldi’s star pupil and these sculptures represent the vividness and lightness of Baroque music. I am influenced by the varied art that I see throughout the world as well as the ancient art of the Minoans with its poetic repetition of patterns and what we can only imagine were very bright colors. While my watercolors express a fleeting quality using gesture drawing and bright colors, my figurative sculptures present a more lyrical view. I believe as an artist that I am honored to have the opportunity to challenge a traditional view of world and present my art as an alternate and contradictory view of reality. I strive to reach the viewer in a way that makes us take the time to examine ourselves, our lives and our values in a way that we might not otherwise take the time to do.
