In the Service of the Species Artwork

Born: Philadelphia,Pa., U.S.AThe overlap of art, science, history and philosophy interests me.Years of classical training in painting, printmaking, and sculptureput me in a good positionto explore New Media inthe areas of digital video,digital set design and digital painting.Originally trained in representational oil painting and sculpture, I later exploredother media including: etching, silk screen, jewelry, costume design, digital set design,video, animation, digital painting, and digital 3D. Structure, harmony, and beauty are some of the formal values that I am concernedwith in my art. I view them as objective not subjective. Evolutionary psychologists have demonstrated cross-cultural human aesthetic preferences, which I try to discover and explore.I feel that the artist must bring a different viewpoint, distill some poetic essence, some transcendental experience or create aesthetic order, instead of simply reflecting the chaos and nihilism of the world.For many years I have studied both the truth and beauty of Nature and of Artand the sensibility that I have developed is what I bring to my digital work, embracing many of the freedoms of the last century while formulating an evolving formal aesthetic