I began studying the figure classically, through old master techniques, such as egg tempera painting, clay and stone sculpture, or silver point and sepia ink drawings. I experimented with abstract welded steel, but I always had a fascination with Renaissance artists, especially Dürer and Michaelangelo. Although I have worked in more contemporary media, it is the older materials and techniques that have sustained my interest.  Like the American Artists Paul Cadmus, and Thomas Eakins before him, I have an appreciation for the male figure.  I haven’t fully pursued this subject to exhaustion, and I am still challenged and inspired by the human form.

• Born in Detroit Michigan, moved to the Washington DC area in 1968.

• 1974-1979 Studied old master drawing and painting techniques with Allan Marsh, and  sculpture with Orest Poliszczuk at Montgomery College, Rockville Md.

• 1979-1980Apprentice to Lila Katzen, Sculptor, New York City.

• 1981 Studied painting with Gene Davis at the Corcoran School of Art.  

• 1982 Commissioned by the City of Rockville to produce a permanent outdoor  sculpture titled Family III for Wooton’s Mill Park.

• 1985 One man sculpture show at Foxley Leech Gallery, Georgetown.

• 1984-1998 Worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, in the Office of Exhibits and Design.

• 1999-2004 Studied drawing, anatomy, painting and sculpture with Robert Liberace.

• 1998-Present, self employed Master Gardner

About Silverpoint Drawing

About the Artist