ARTIST/ILLUSTRATOR/MUSICIAN/STORYTELLER
40 plus years of diverse experience as a creative professional working as a graphic designer, art director,
retoucher, letterer and illustrator. Life long advocate of self learning: I have studied myth and folklore extensively. Classical guitar, Tai Chi, and have been a strong proponent of democratic education.
2017 Winner of the Bronx Council of the Arts (BRIO) award for Drawing Excellence
2018 Arts Fund Grant Award from Bronx Council for the Arts for The ScareCrow Project
2019 Arts Fund Grant Award from Bronx Council for the Arts for The Kelly Street Garden Mural
2021 Winner of the Bronx Council of the Arts (BRIO) award for Drawing Excellence
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Seniors Exhibition, Hudson Guild – New York, NY
2014 Group Exhibition, The Seed – Chashama, Harlem, NY
Consigned work to Scott Eder Gallery, DUMBO, NYC.
2006 Solo Exhibition, Secret Stories – Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Group Show, A Gathering of Friends – Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY
2004 2 man Exhibition, Sepia & Bronze – Rongio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Featured Artist – POD Gallery, New York, NY
The Art of War – WNYC Radio
Centro Pablo, International Digital Salon – Havana, Cuba
Group show, Communiqué – Tribes, New York, NY
2002 Small Works Group Show – BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Museum of Computer Art - 1st Place; Manipulated Photography, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show, University of Medicine & Dentistry - Newark, NJ
Group Show, Digital Salon – Las Cruces, NM
Group Show, Cultural Centre Pushkinskaja – St. Petersburg, Russia
International Digital Art Awards (IDAA); Top 100 Finalists - Melbourne, Australia
2000 Bit by Bit Digital; Jurors Top Five - Colorado Springs, CO
PUBLISHED WORK
2013 - 84 Drawings • foreword by Lee Van Laer
• Completed after 4 years of continuous drawing — 100 page limited hardcover edition.
• Raised over $5K (60% above target) with RocketHub crowdfunding campaign for book publication.
• Published work currently consigned to Scott Eder Gallery, NYC.
COMMISSIONED WORK
2018 Bronx Hot Sauce
2012 Uncover Church Avenue BID Project
2008 CD cover for classical guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee
2000 Minneapolis Fringe Festival – Triptych for HamletMachine by Heiner Mueller
CURATOR
2006 The Diligent Hand • Drawings by 20 artists – Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Co-Director – Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY
2003-4 Co-Curator, – Rongio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PUBLICITY
2015 IV Bienial of Humor, Portugal
2014 Video Interview - Breuckelen Magazine
2013 5 page spread - Catapult Magazine
2012 Featured interview - Ditmas Park Corner
2009 Featured interview – Brooklyn News 12 as part of the Flatbush Artist Studio Tour
2007 Featured Article – Brooklyn Fine Arts Magazine
2005 BeWhich Magazine
2004 Direct Art Magazine
1998 Agora Magazine (Japan)
1997 Carnet Magazine (Italy)
1996 Chicago Tribune
1989-91 Free Spirit Magazine
1989 Boston Globe
1985 Horizons Magazine
1983 Performing Arts Journal
INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
2016 - present Kelly Street Garden
Currently assistant garden manager responsible for garden design, youth groups, project promotion
and Art-in-the-Garden, a project that brings socially engaged art in the garden environment.
2009 - 2014 The Free School Apparent
• Blog about being a parent and founder of an alternative education institution.
• Articles republished in Education Revolution.
2003 - 2018 Brooklyn Free School
• Conceived and designed branding, marketing and publicity campaigns for cutting edge school with focus on an alternative approach to education. Created flyers, brochures, journals, ads, press releases and annual appeals.
• 40+ years as a finger style guitarist. Participated in 2013 The $100 Guitar Project.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
1996 – 2016 Oxygen Advertising, Creative Director
• Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, PA
Produced display ads and public signage highlighting the hospital’s specialties.
• New York Center for Head and Neck, New York, NY
Direct mail, web management and social media for world renowned ENT specialists.
• Lawrence Memorial Hospital, New London, CT
Designed multi-faceted recruitment campaign featuring an original map illustration.
1993 –1999 Brooklyn Hospital Center, Independent Design Contractor
• Created high-end communications collateral across departments for this major metropolitan hospital.
1992 – 1995 Lutheran Medical Center, Independent Design Contractor
• Produced high-end communications collateral including an extensive Patient Handbook.
1982 – 1990 The Well-Bred Loaf, Inc, Design Director
• Package design, trade show set-ups and collateral.
TEACHING / CONSULTING / PUBLIC SPEAKING
2019 Kelly Street Garden mural - Bronx, NY
2017 Pen & Ink Workshop – Hunts Point Library, Hunts Point, NY
2017 Pen & Ink Workshop – The Laundromat Project, Hunts Point, NY
2017 The ScareCrow Project – Kelly Street Garden, New RootsCommunity Farm
2004-11 Drawing/Animation Instructor – Brooklyn Free School, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Democratic Education Presentation – Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Creative Consultant – Erroyo Inc, Knoxville, TN
2004 Artists & Marketing Presentation – Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Guest Instructor, Art Direction – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Creative Exercises for Business Problem Solving – Acordia Insurance, New York, NY
EDUCATION
1997-98 Pratt Institute – digital video / non-linear editing / broadcast design
1991 The School of Visual Arts – computer workshop
1973-79 The School of Visual Arts – fine arts / graphic design / illustration /animation / advertising