I have been a working artist for many years, something I would never have predicted for myself.

My parents wouldn’t have been surprised. They regularly took me to museums, exhibits, and plays in New York City from our New Jersey town. Our home was filled with art. 

After a false start as a college student, I spent a year in a kibbutz near the Golan Heights. I got a degree in philosophy from Boston University, worked on several political campaigns, and spent years in various administrative and management roles in city and state government here in Massachusetts.

But I loved working with my hands. On a whim I took a stone carving class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and was hooked. Soon I was moving to Italy to study at Studio Nicoli in Carrara. From the studio’s courtyard you could see the mountains and quarries where Michelangelo and countless artists for centuries have found their marble. 

Back in Boston, I became a sculptor fulltime, sharing studios with others and eventually buying my own live/work space at the 249 A Street Artists Cooperative in the Fort Point Arts Community, where I have lived for the past 25 years. 

After years working with marble, alabaster, and slate, I found myself drawn to encaustic painting. The two art forms are connected – the translucent quality of marble and alabaster is also found in the diffusion of light through layers of wax. My work has further evolved and I am also now working on a series of encaustic monoprints.

 All of these forms share the same sense of texture, color, depth, dimensionality, and mystery.