My paintings from the City Series are based on motion and the urban environment. As a child growing up in New York City, my days were spent absorbing cacophonous sounds and observing the fleeting images of a yet undefined adult world. I viewed this unceasing circus from our 14th floor apartment, or tearing down the sidewalk clutching the hand of a harried parent. At night the city turned into a magical network of lights, and ultimately darting shadows and reflections on my bedroom wall. For years I have been reminded of those images and sought a way to recapture and reconcile them with the formal issues my paintings address: intricate patterns produced by points of color. My art historical antecedents are the Italian Futurists, specifically, Severini, and Boccioni, and the French Post-Impressionists, Seurat and Signac. I have also studied the stop-action photographs of Muybridge which were seminal attempts at capturing and analyzing the movement of men or animals engaged in various activities.

My paintings from the Reflections Series were initially a thematic respite from the chaos of the city. They depict a quiet and peaceful place devoid of overt activity, except for the rustle of a curtain or the subtle shift of a reflection. They are paintings about absence and solitude.

My most recent work explores the many layers of visual perception produced by multiple reflections on a variety of objects, images, and experiences.