Biography
I was born in forested suburbs of the Pascack Valley in northeastern New Jersey. There I lived rather contently - most of the time - with my family until I left to attend college upon graduating from high school.
I attended Fordham University in New York City where I studied Finance and Art History. Studying in the city was invigorating, enlightening and challenging. After receiving my degree in Finance, I decided to promptly put that to no use what-so-ever in the publishing industry. It seems that during my years studying finance I gravitated more toward the arts, a byproduct of my art history study and the dynamic culture surrounding me. During the first two years after leaving Fordham, I spent much time both in the steel canyons of New York City and amid the hills and valleys and waterfalls of northeastern New Jersey. It was during these years that the beautiful song of nature’s intricate rhythms and structures, juxtaposed with the deconstructed ballet of the human aesthetic most impressed itself upon my thoughts.
After discovering many waterfalls and running with many deer and wild turkey in the hills and hollows of the Ramapo Mountain Range, I decided to return to College to further examine my thoughts. I attended the University of Maryland where I studied Mathematics, Engineering, Sculpture and Music. During my years there, the interplay and dance of these varied disciplines was revealing, inspiring, maddening and meditative. I eventually graduated an active sculptor of stone, timber and metals with a degree in Structural Engineering and my flute in hand.
I worked as a consulting structural engineer for 10 years, fortunate to practicing with some of the leading firms in both the Washington, DC area and the country. In the Autumn of 2008, in the midst of the most must 'lovely' economy since The Great Depression, I left the internationally recognized engineering firm of Robert Silman Associates (see the ENGINEERING section of this web site) to peruse my career as an artist.
Currently I am producing sculptural art forms in metals, hardwoods and various other materials and in addition capturing their still and moving images in interesting and complimentary settings. I also search for waterfalls and long-lived trees while continuing to run with deer and wild turkey in the Potomac River basin and the Shenandoah Range. I spend what time I can backcountry camping and hiking throughout the Western Hemisphere. My flute unfortunately lies dusty and dormant.
