MY WORK
I've been creating photographs and making art for most of my life.
My focus has always been the interplay of the imagination and the natural world, and I find myself often seeking patterns, details, and hidden connections. I explore the physical locations and inner places I've lived in and visited, each as an external and internal landscape. I seek to touch the feeling of each space in time and to understand how a space, or a detail in nature, remembers the people who have visited, even long after they have moved through.
I build each work with layers, each one representing a different experience of time and place. Working with moving shadows and shifts of light and dark, I look to capture moments as we move towards them, and as they move past us. I think about how we remember, and how we are remembered.
I often start with a photographic image that sets a "reality" for me on one plane, at one point in time. I then add my own notions and visions of what might have come before and what might come after-- in each case seeking to weaken the bond with the "reality" reference of the photograph, moving closer to the inner compositions that we all create and experience.
MY BACKGROUND
I was born in New York City, and I grew up on Long Island and in a small town on the coast of Belgium-- two places where the combination of water and flat land makes for extraordinary light, big skies and distant horizons.
After many years of working primarily in photography, I continue to explore how to extend my vision by either adding to my photographs elements of drawing, painting (primarily with inks and watercolors) and printmaking; or by simply using my photographs as a taking off point for my imagination.
I have studied at The Art Students League, the International Center of Photography, the New York Studio School and in workshops and studio classes at the Art Barge in Napeague.
My works are part of numerous private collections in the US and Europe, and have been shown at The Cheryl Hazan Gallery in Tribeca, at Clic Gallery, Folio East, and Ashawagh Hall in East Hampton, at Sylvester & Co at Home in Amagansett. and at Sylvester's Modern General in Sag Harbor. My works are also featured in a book published in 2020, entitled "Hamptons Artists: The Current Wave", by photographer Jaimie Lopez, with text by Coco Myers.
I split my time among East Hampton, New York City and Bonnieux, France.