Portrait, Red Shirt and Flowers Painting

My passion for creative expression and richness consumes me. I constantly crave new beginnings and embrace the struggle associated with each new creation. Perhaps being an immigrant and child of Holocaust survivors belies my fidelity to any one style or medium. It most certainly has influenced my aesthetic and cultural curiosities. Everything is always in flux - a constant state of motion that manifests as creative furor. My life's work is composed of capturing the unconventional beauty and visual complexities of life, interweaving humor, oddity, and unconventional beauty across a breadth of mediums - from paintings and monotypes to clay and metals. I am particularly fascinated by the concept of tension and the interplay of opposites and dualities - foreign and familiar, symmetrical and asymmetrical, conventional and bizarre, abstract and concrete. I express these tensions in my work spontaneously with free-gestured brushstrokes and bold use of color.