My painting is part of that European figurative tradition. Queer art of the male nude is my choice with all of the baggage that it entails. I choose to live in the New York City area as it offers a cultural opening of art for the sake of art. Each painting is part of a personal journey of learning how to paint, to make something new. I am an internationally recognized master printmaker with a major work in the MOMA of Japan entitled - "The Aides Intellectual Quilt" a monumental print of hand sewn etchings that reads as paper quilt tapestry. I was born in Colorado and did my graduate studies at the Yale School of Art.