My work crosses traditional boundaries.  Trained in traditional film and video production, I’ve gravitated away from representational reality and toward the abstract and non-linear across many media.

 

I am much inspired by the ideas of the mid-20th century color field painters, but taking their ideas of form and process and updating them with a 21st century digital twist.  I blend elements from many layered photographs focusing on the photographic basics of form - light, texture and color  - more than the actual content of the original images(s), to bring out the purity of medium.

 

I’ve been working with the photographic process for more than 30 years - first in television news, and then in corporate media and education.  After receiving an M.F.A. in Film/Video Production, I began to exhibit my experimental video, photographic, and interactive work on television and in art galleries/museums and on the web.  I’ve won a number of prestigious awards for a wide range of media projects.  I am currently the director of the B.A. degree in Digital Communication at the University of Baltimore.

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