I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s, a quiet and moody child in a large family. I think passing my first eighteen years in that place left its impression on my visual sense. I became a friend of bright saturated color, and clarity of outline. There was a sense of large scale, of newness, and artificiality. A reader from an early age, I studied English literature at college before getting a medical degree in Chicago. I practiced medicine in San Francisco for 2 decades. During this time I started to explore more fully my lifelong attraction to art by attending classes at the San Francisco Art Institute, and I set up a work studio at home. Within several years this interest subsumed all others, and in 2001 I left hospital practice and moved to New York to begin life as an artist. After a year of study at Sotheby's Institute, i began painting full-time in 2004. I lived in Brooklyn and worked in a studio in Manhattan's garment district.  I relocated in December 2017 to coastal Sonoma County in California. 

My work is concerned with some of the basic aspects of visual expression: line, shape, form, scale, and above all color. I have experimented with applying to painting the properties of graphic art, advertising, posters, signs, and block prints.  The first decade of my work could mostly be termed hard edge geometric abstraction, and minimalism. 

I see in my work the influence of the artists who have affected me the most:  Kelly, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse, Joseph Cornell, and Stuart Davis. 

Since moving my studio to California I have begun to explore sculptural work, mostly using wood and paper. and continue to enjoy collage-making