About the artist:

This native of Minnesota studied at the University of Iowa and currently lives in Philadelphia. He is a painter and a printmaker, as well as an educator who taught printmaking at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. Artist Statement I believe in the communicative power of the abstract and visual structures within a picture. However, most of my work for over 40 years has also included a high degree of representation. I think that my need to reference reality stems from my desire to affirm that wondrous things happen in this world, in our realities, our lives and our times. I find the experience of looking at a picture to be similar to listening to music. If there is representation in the picture, I see it much like the words in a song. Poetry and music are two different languages – but they can be combined to great effect. Visually, I want to make pictures that will strike me, and the viewer, the way the sound of a cello affects me – it almost seems as if I hear it in my chest, I feel it in my own body, like breathing. I know it comes to me from another source but it seems to vibrate within me. SELECTED COLLECTIONS, PUBLIC AND CORPORATE: Art Institute of Chicago Ball State University Art Museum Cleveland Museum of Art National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Neuberger Museum, State University of NewYork, Purchase, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Free Library J. B. Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA Yale University Art Museum United States Department of State, Washington, DC American Embassy, Tokyo St. Paul Council of the Arts Carlton College, Northfield, MN University of Delaware, Newark, DE University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA American Telephone and Telegraph, NYC Amity Art Foundation, Woodbridge, CT ARA Services, Inc., New York ARCO Chemical Corp., Philadelphia, PA The Boston Company, Boston, MA Chemical Bank, New York Citibank, New York Gallerie Claude Bernard, Paris Intrav, Inc., St. Louis, MO Kemper Insurance Co., Chicago Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA Meidinger, Inc., Louisville, KY Met Life, Inc., New York,NY Michigan Bell, Inc. Moody’s Investment Service, Inc. NYC Price Waterhouse, Philadelphia, PA Readers Digest, Inc., New York, NY Stephens, Inc., Little Rock, AK