Council On Aging

Opening reception is Sunday, September 11, 2-4 p.m.

Hello, and thank you for coming to the art show at the Council on Aging in Truro. As an artist, I have explored multiple media. Glass was my first serious fascination. I majored in glass at Mass. College of Art in Boston, studying under Dan Daley. I received my B.F.A. and was recognized by the Corning Museum of Glass in "New Glass Review 5." After graduating I had the honor of a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America where I was awarded the Rothko Award of Excellence for my work. The University of Illinois then offered me a graduate teaching position and full scholarship to their M.F.A. with Bill Carlson in glass. I accepted the position, but decided I wanted to explore sculpture instead. While there I received a "Best in Show" Award at the Evanston Art Center in Chicago for my sculpture.

Now about my work . . . Transforming objects and materials has always fascinated me . . . My work is additive, not reductive. When I work, my gut, my heart, and my brain come together in what I call my "art zone," where time stands still. Sounds weird, but the "zone" is where everything comes from. The sculptures that emerge from this process always surprise me.

I have had many a career, but art and artistic sensibilities have always been an important part of my life -- as long as I can remember. I grew up in Melrose, MA, just outside Boston. I went to college at Williams in the Berkshires and then to Georgetown Law in D.C. After a public service law career, mostly with the Federal Trade Commission, I turned to the restaurant business - Gallerani's Cafe in Provincetown. As many of you may know, it was an exciting and wonderfully rewarding phase of my life. Now I am semi-retired and living in P-town and Kauai. Throughout this time I have been doing artwork. It started out with photography (with my father actually,) water colors (studied with Gail Browne,) then pastels (John DiMestico,) oils (Carol Westcott.) I think the power of art for me is primarily the beauty of the aesthetic and color - entertainment for the eye, the ability to be transformed into another place, and/or the ability of an artwork to make you look at something with a new and refreshed eye.