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My most recent work explores the vibratory connections between people and the world around us. Sound and music are constantly circulating throughout our bodies, minds and spirits like invisible strings. I attempt to transform what I hear and feel into paintings, drawings and sculptures by placing these sounds into a visual context of form, line, and color. I strive to invoke something unique yet direct and authentic for the viewer through an expressionistic process that explores these ideas. My many years of studying martial arts and music have paralleled my life time dedicated to the visual arts. Now more than ever, sound and music feed into each other and become one language expressed through my work, both my paintings and my sculpture.
1980
Tyler School of Art
BFA Painting and Sculpture
2018
Villari’s Shaolin Kempo Karate and Jijitsu
Achieved Masters level (5th degree)
1980/1984
Moonstone Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Helped Create and Acting Art and Music Director
1984/1989
Allen’s Lane Art Center, Philadelphia PA
After School Program, created and Acting Director
1984-1989
Allen’s Lane Summer Arts Camp Director
1989/2022
Mantis Computers, Inc.
Created, Owned and Operated
2001
Mantis Show Room
Creative
2013/2019
Cellini Studios Gallery and Studios
Created and Curated
2019/Current
Cellini Show Room and Studios
Created and Curated
2014/Current
Villari’s Martial Arts School of Ambler
Created, Owned and Directed
2019/Current
Kindred Art Collaborative
Created and collaborated with Mikel Elam and Richard Metz
1981
Set Designs, Academy of Music, St. Peters School, Philadelphia, PA
1982
Solo Exhibition and Presentation, Moonstone Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1986
Solo Exhibition, Allen’s Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1990
Two-Person Exhibition, Manayunk Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1991
Two-Person Exhibition, Old York Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Solo Exhibition, Mantis Show Room
2016
Solo Exhibition, Cellini Studios, Ambler, PA
2017
Group Exhibition, Oxford Art Alliance, Oxford, PA
Top prize in painting
Annual Exhibition, Norristown Art Center, Norristown, PA
Juror
2018
Solo Exhibition, Cellini Studios, Ambler, PA
2021
Solo Exhibition, Cellini Show Room, Ambler, PA
Kindred Art Collaborative, Cellini Show Room, Ambler, PA
2023
Solo Exhibition, Cellini Show Room, Ambler, PA
Musician Series
Kindred Art Collaborative, The Art Trust, West Chester, PA
Exhibition and Live Performance
New Now VI, InLiquid, Philadelphia, PA
Kindred Art Collaborative
Art of the State, State Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Kindred Art Collaborative
2024
Solo Exhibition, Cellini Show Room, Ambler, PA
Musician Series
Kindred Art Collaborative, InLiquid Market East, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, Small Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group Exhibition, PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Kindred Art Collaborative
