ARTIST STATEMENT: For the past fifty years I made my living in television news, video documentary, and painting. Influences from my Past: Growing up in a Jewish neighborhood in west Philadelphia played a major role in the unique development of the rest of my life. The people, the streets, the culture made me strong. My grandmother’s house on 60th and Carpenter, her beauty shop in the basement, and three generations of loving family were directly responsible for inspiring my decision to become an artist. 60th Street was a Jewish melting pot- rich in character, personality, and heroic in...more
