Biography

Personal

b. Jamaica, NY 1938


Education

The High School of Music and Art, New York, NY 1952-56

Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico  1955

Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Nuremberg, Germany 1958-62


Teaching

C. W. Post College, L.I. University, Instructor and Artist in Residence, 1963-66

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Instructor, 1967-68

Yale University Summer School, Norfolk, CT, Instructor, 1969

Hunter College, NY, Instruct. & Asst. Prof. 1967-84, Assoc. Prof. 1987-97, Prof. 1997-2002

Exhibitions

Society of American Graphic Artists , 1965-1979

Associated American Artists Gallery, NY 1965-1969, 1979

Yale Summer School, Norfolk, CT 1969

French and Co., NY 1970

Warren Benedek Gallery, NY 1972

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1973

Ariadne Gallery, NY 1974

Editions of Prints, Symphony Graphics, NY, 1974

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY 1976

Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, NY 1984

City University of New York Faculty

Shanghai, China, 1986

Charles Cowles Annex Gallery, NY 1986

Sound Shore Gallery, Port Chester, NY 1987, Stamford, CT, 1988-94

Plattsburgh State Museum, Plattsburgh, NY 1991-2004

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1993

Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY, 1993-94

Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, CT, 1994

Hunter College, New York, NY, 2000

Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY 2001

Martinez Gallery, Troy, NY, 2001-2016

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2001, 2005

The Art Post, Orford, NH, 2002

Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, NY, 2003

Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2003

Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, 2004  

Deborah Davis Fine Art, Hudson, NY, 2004-06

New England College, Henniker, NH, 2004      

Core Fine Art, Hanover, NH, 2006        

Studio Exhibitions, Troy, NY, 2007-2008

North Main Gallery, Salem, NY 2010, 2015

Ventana Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012-14

ShowRoom, NY, 2012

ShowRoom Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 2013

Galeria Centro, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia 2015

Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY 2016

The Gilded Owl, Hudson, NY 2016

David Richard Gallery, New York, NY, 2020-23

Professional Activities

Curatorial  

"Physicality", Hunter College, New York, NY, 1991

“Color in Space", Brown University, Providence, RI, 1995

"Messages from the Interior", Russell Sage College, Albany, NY 

Traveling Exhibition, 1995-96

“Works on Paper”, Ilium Building Studio , Troy, NY 2008

“Collage”, Illium Building Studio , Troy, NY, 2008

Juror 

Visual Arts Judge, State University of New York,

New York Foundation for the Arts

Thayer Fellowships, Patricia K. Ross Awards, 1994-2008

Arts Organizations

Francis J. Greenburger Foundation, NY, Director, 1986-88

Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, NY, Director, 1988

Art/Omi, Ghent, NY, Advisory Board, 1994-97

Albany Center Galleries, Board of Trustees, 2005-06

Research Project

Artists Research Group, Hunter College Oral History Project

The New York School and Higher Edation,, 1988-2000 

Talks  

“Landscape and Abstraction”       

Berkshire Community College, Great Barrington, MA, 2004

“On My Work”         

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock, NY, 2006

“Feeling in Art”

Music and Art Alumni Group, New York, NY, 2007

Grants   

National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts, 1976   

Research Foundation of the City University of New York, 1986-1996

New York Foundation for the Arts, Stipends, 1995, 1997

Commission

"Colorscape"

300 ft. Mural, Stamford Town Centre, Stamford, CT 1993

Purchase Award

Albany Institute of History and Art, 1991

Permanent Collections

Albany Institute of History and Art
Amoco Corp., Denver
Arco Corp., Los Angeles

Ayco Co., Saratoga Springs, NY

Benerofe Properties, New York
Boston Public Library
Continental Grain Co., New York
Golden Foundation, Berlin, NY

Owens-Corning Corp. Toledo, OH
Paine, Webber, Chicago Phibro LLC, Stamford, CT

Plattsburgh State Museum, Plattsburgh, NY

Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 
3M Corp., Minneapolis
Time Equities Inc., New York
Virginia Museum, Richmond
W. Virginia Univ. Morgantown

Private Collections

On Request