Hailing originally from The Bronx and then from New Jersey,
my studio is located in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Having been formally educated in music , I performed and
wrote regularly - my sculpture crept to the fore in the late eighties and
by the mid nineties I received my first freelance sculpting job throughFoam Props
to make a couple of ten foot fiberglass coke bottles for the Atlanta Braves Stadium.
Since then I have done countless jobs sculpting props for companies like AOL,
Legal Seafood’s,
Monster.Com, and Polaroid to name a few. Through them I have also
modeled
and sculpted to size public art projects for the City of Boston
in 2000 (the Cavalcade of Cod) and been a part of Art-O-Mobiles 2002 for the City of
Stamford, Conn. My design for the Cavalcade of Cod was displayed and auctioned off
at the Bakalar Gallery at Mass. Art in Boston. Particularly rewarding was sculpting
the ten foot longReclining Buddha at the restaurant Peking Tom’s and the
two giant seated Buddhas at Sanctuary in Boston.
As well, since 2000, I have been working with Rika Smith-McNally and Associates
Conservators of Objects and Sculpture. With them I have done maintenance and conservation on bronze
sculptures and monuments across the New England area including the statue of Edward Everett in Dorchester and
Sam Adams in front of Fanueil Hall. For the Cambridge Arts Council in Cambridge, Ma.
we maintain and care for scores of public art pieces every year including, Turnaround Surround
by Mierle Laderman Ukeles with whom I worked on the continuing maintenance of that piece.
In the spring of 2005 we worked at the Museum Of Fine Arts Boston stabilizing and caring for
prototype plaster reliefs by John Singer Sargent which he had used in the making of the museum's rotunda.
At the same time some of my wood carvings and plaster body portraits appeared
in the Museum of Urban Art and Culture in Boston’s South End. Since then I
have shown at places like The Paul Alexander Gallery,
The Nave Gallery in Somerville, the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge
and even the Paradise Lounge Gallery.
In 2003 I built ‘Spirits and Minions’ a work of fashioned roots and epoxy
to be installed and displayed on the Boston Common for First Night on
New Years Eve 2004.
In October of 2007, the Judge A. David Mazzone Memorial on Deer Island in Boston will have its unveiling.
Built on the concept of waves emanating from a center point, I designed the bronze memorial and park,
with landscape architects Polly Reeve and Peggy Nestler, to commemorate the great work of Judge Mazzone
who set into motion the cleaning of Boston Harbor and oversaw its implementation.
My sculpture is about the human form, its bare shapes and patterns and its simple beauty.
I am fascinated by how subconsciously hidden jewels from our lives rise
to the surface and what they can mean in a broader collective sense.
My totems are here for your veiwing pleasure.