Insight
Born in NYC, 1946
I quite enjoy sketching, pencil lines on textured paper. Line delineating form – color painted on wood or canvas to follow.
Moved to Puerto Rico, Age 11
The more I consider why I make art, the more I realize it’s about pleasure. The pleasure of solving and making something beyond myself – beyond what I had imagined.
Returned to NYC, Age 19
Am intrigued by the relationship between form and color: how size, shape, intensity of color affect each other within a given space; how colors and forms can be dissonant and harmonious at the same time.
I strive for my artwork to transmit a spiritual order. Through a formal, yet intuitive structure emerges an emotional expression via color. The objective is to achieve a certain purity through the art.
Now living in Greenville, SC
I enter into a meditative space as I sketch, prepare a surface, select colors, and lay down paint.
I make art to achieve harmony within myself, to explore my capabilities and share with others that which I have discovered.
Exhibitions
2024 DRG Gallery, Greenville, SC COLLAB (Jan) Two person show with Darin Gerhke Painted Ceramics
2023 Furman University Trone Center for Mental Fitness Commissioned Artwork (Nov) Curated by Elisa Walker Paintings
Art + Light Gallery, Greenville, SC Summer Show (Aug) Group Exhibit/Gallery Artists Paintings
TD Bank Commissioned Artwork (Feb) Art Advisor Janine Karnig Painting
2022
Canal Building, Greenville, SC
Commissioned Artwork (Nov)
Curated by Bracken Sansbury
Paintings
The Modernist Gallery, NYC
Abstraction + Geometry (Sept)
Curated by Orestes Gonzalez
Paintings
2021
AC Hotel, Greenville, SC
Commissioned Artwork (Jan)
Curated by Bracken Sansbury
Paintings
Woodside Mill, Greenville, SC
Commissioned Artwork (April)
Curated by Kelsey Farrer
Paintings
Artisphere 2021, SC
Juried Art Fair (May)
Paintings
2020
Sager Braudis Gallery, MO
Gallery Artists (Nov)
Group Show
Paintings
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC
Commissioned Artwork (Feb)
Curated by Cade Tompkins Projects
Paintings
Art & Light Gallery, SC
Dialogue with Taylor Adams
Two Person Show (March)
Paintings
2019
Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbus, MO
Bauhaus (May)
Solo Show
Drawings & Paintings
2018
MD Anderson Cancer Center, FL
Commissioned Artwork (Apr)
Curated by Hillary Whitaker Gallery
Paintings
Art & Light Gallery, Greenville, SC
Summer Show, Gallery Artists (July)
Paintings
2017
Art and Light Gallery, Greenville, SC
hard edge/ soft edge (May)
Two Person Show with Charles Marburg
Drawings & Paintings
2016
ArtHelix, Bushwick, NYC
Four Person Group Exhibit (Sept)
Curated by Wiliam Norton
Paintings
2015
ArtHelix, Bushwick, NYC
Group Exhibit (Oct)
Curated by Wiliam Nortan
Paintings
2009
The Armory Show, LIC, NY
Group Show (March)
Paintings
2007
The Space Gallery, LIC, NY
Five Person Group Show (March)
Paintings & Drawings
The Space Gallery, LIC, NY
Solo Show (June)
Paintings & Drawings
2005
The Willis Building, LIC, NY
Open Studios (April)
Paintings & Drawings
2004
The Willis Building, LIC, NY
Open Studios (May)
Paintings & Drawings
2000
902 Gallery, NYC
Solo Show (Oct)
Drawings
1992
Joaquin Mercado Gallery, San Juan, PR
Solo Show (Feb)
Paintings & Drawings
1988
Joaquin Mercado Gallery, San Juan, PR
Inaugural Six Person Show (Sept)
Drawings
1976
West Broadway Gallery, NYC
Solo Show (Oct)
Paintings & Drawings
West Broadway Gallery, NYC
Group Show (July & Aug)
Paintings & Drawings
1975
Rundistijl Museum, Copenhagen
Soho Artists - Group Show (Nov)
Drawings
1974
West Broadway Gallery, NYC
Solo Show (Dec)
Drawings
West Broadway Gallery, NYC
Group Show (July & Aug)
Drawings
1973
Santiago Gallery, San Juan, PR
Solo Show (Sept)
Paintings & Drawings
1972
Colibri Galley, San Juan, PR
Primavera - Three Person Show (May)
With Domingo Lopez, Joaquin Mercado
Curated by Luigi Marozinni
Paintings & Drawings
1970
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Recent Acquisitions Group Exhibit (Oct)
Curated by Theodoros Stamos
Drawings
1969
Ponce Museum of Art, PR
Three Person Exhibit (May)
With Olga Dueñas and Roberto Rodriguez
Paintings & Sculpture
1968
Ateneo Puertoriqueno, San Juan, PR
Solo Show (June)
Paintings & Drawings
University of Puerto Rico Pavillion, Rio Piedras, PR
Solo Show (Dec)
Sculpture
1967
University of Puerto Rico Museum, Rio Piedras, PR
MARZO - Group Show (March)
Curated by Felix Bonilla
Paintings & Drawings
Education
University of Michigan
Pratt Institute
University of Puerto Rico
Collections
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR
Reuters Corporation, New York, NY
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL
ScanSource, Greenville, SC
Ateneo Puertoriqueno, San Juan, PR
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass
The Space Collection, LIC, NY
CSX Corporation, Jacksonville, FL
Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY
Your new works are quite stunning! The somewhat tense intersections of the geometry in combination with the not-entirely-what-one-would-expect color combinations make them seem pretty charged up, while the expanses of white offer a good counterbalance.
Jason Hoelscher
Professor Savannah College of Art and Design