ARTIST STATEMENT
Art has been my passion all my life - as an admirer, collector and self-taught painter. I am most fascinated with contemporary art. Pop Art, Pointilism, Street Art, Graffiti and always abstraction. My art idols are Yayoi Kusama, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud.
Since I happen to love champagne I became a “CAN ARTIST”.
I paint crushed and full imaginary champagne cans. They are painted on custom built transparent Lucite boxes. The effect is a three dimensional illusion that makes objects appear to be floating. I chose this subject matter to play with the concept of trash and luxury - of the mundane juxtaposed with the exquisite in true Pop Art.
Painting for me is meditation through repetition. Here, form is everything - until one "zooms" out... Some of my paintings are abstract color compositions up close but become figurative when looked at through your cellphone camera view:
In the summer of 2023 I will be moving my studio to the South of France. Beforehand I have lived and painted on Mare Island in the San Francisco Bay, in Napa Valley, in New Orleans, in Florida, in New York, Cologne, Hamburg, Bremen and Dortmund.
Latest Exhibits at:
De Young Museum in San Francisco - "DE YOUNG OPEN Exhibit"
One of 700 Bay area artist picked in a juried Salon Show, October 2020 running through January 3rd, 2021
Nicole Sassaman Showroom in Beverly Hills
Several Group Shows at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ
Two semi-annual Group Shows at JCO's Art Haus in Los Gatos, CA
Laguna Contemporary Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA
Voted “Artist of the Day” by Novogratz Design in 2015
My artwork “Square Bubbles” was used by Paramount
Pictures in the Oscar Award wining movie “The Big Short”
International group of collectors in Europe,
Australia and Israel as well as all over Asia.