About Me

I was born in Boston, MA, in 1967, and as a child spent a year in London, and later a year in Florence, Italy.  I travelled in Eastern Europe discovering my roots, apprenticed to sculptor Philip Grausman in Connecticut, and attended Boston University to earn a Master’s Degree in Painting in 1994.  

During the 1990s I exhibited my paintings at Pepper gallery in Boston, and went to live in London, England, where I stayed for three years.  I had a show in New York City at the Tatistcheff Gallery in 2001, won an award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and began teaching in Boston area art colleges.   

A couple of years after my son was born in 2007, I founded the Boston Figurative Art Center in Somerville, MA, as a home for a figure painting and drawing community in the Boston area.  The BFAC celebrates its fourteenth anniversary in December of 2022. Please join us there if you can!

My first children’s book Rocket Boy was published by David Godine in 2017, which came about through a fortuitous connection I made in my early twenties with author and art dealer William Cole, with whom I created the limited edition, hand-printed letterpress and woodcut book Aphorisms at the Bow and Arrow Press at Harvard University in 1991.   Aphorisms can be found now in a lot of rare-book collections, and I’m most proud that a print from the book was bought by the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, where I worked as a high school student in the Drawing Study, and where scholars (and students like me) could handle drawings by Michelangelo and Rembrandt from the collection, the third largest collection of drawings in the world.