I attended The Cooper Union Art School from 1962 to 1966. Born to parents who were passionate about visual art and music, my dad was a visual artist and a scat and blues singer, and my mom was a feelingful ballad and jazz singer, and a great dancer. Their passions shaped my entire life. From them I learned how to see, and how to listen with love! - a gift that has never stopped giving!! I have painted and sculpted for more than seventy years, played percussion, and composed some music, and done some writing. My most recent passion has been to try to express my reactions and feelings to jazz and most particularly, to the music of Charlie Parker, by using animation! My soul celebrates with joy his teachings and his undiluted humanity articulated with a gift the world has rarely seen and heard.

I’m almost eighty years old now with a modest quantity of artwork behind me. I decided not to promote my work actively many years ago, and so my “fans” consist of my artist friends whose judgement I truly value! I’ve come by my “obscurity” honestly! My formation as an artist is from a time of amazing excitement in the art world - abstract expressionism, op, pop, be-bop, hard bop, Coltrane, Sun Ra, free jazz and many other “isms” existing at the same time. What a stew! Not many people talk about that collective era as an entity, but me and my contemporaries do!