Sobre el Artista

Born in New York City in the 1950's I lived in a world designed by John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri and John Baeder. When I first saw 'Early Sunday Morning' as a teenager at the Whitney, I wanted it so bad I bought the earliest incarnation of acrylic paints called 'Hyplar' and set about making myself a copy. Since then, as NYC went from a big grimy hard working industrial town, to a slick glittering pile of deceit and money ruled over by implausible human garbage like Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg, and Art itself went from a craftsman's trade to a high-stakes con-game of drip and splatter nonsense with longwinded bullshit stories underneath, hung up by knaves to lay a trap for fools. Ive done art for over 40 years, and been paid for what I have done. I have never participated in a gallery show because the degree of prostitution necessary disgusts me to this day. There is an art site online in NY today called '60 Inches", I told its management there was a time when 10 would get you a show in any gallery in the city. I paint pictures of the landscape around me. I make stained glass windows professionally. I carve stone and wood and like making monuments. I do art, because I was born an artist. Not to become a 'star'.