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I was born July 22, 1947 in Hawthorne California. My family moved to the Venice and Culver City area of Los Angeles around 1950 where I gained an early influence from the remains of the Venice canals (then inundated with oil derricks), making the old bridges and canals even more interesting and mysterious.
My father was very much an early influence on my work being a metal and wood worker himself. I learned building skills from him as he would whip together small buildings and additions to our property and he was quite inventive himself. In 1962, I saw some work by Edward Kienholz and began making sculpture from found objects. Also about that time I became interested in surfing and began building skateboards and surfboards, honing my skills shaping and working with fiberglass.
When I turned 19 I build a boat and lived on it in Marina Del Ray for the next 6 years while I went to Santa Monica College where after just five years I graduated with a degree in art. It took that long because I just kept taking any class that I was intersted in starting from architecture and ending in Art
Since that time I have had several studios my first being in North Hollywood and ending up in my current studio in Burbank. I have had the opertunity to show my art at a my own personal gallery that is in a business I own which has become the oldest art gallery in Burbank, now open for the last 23 years.
My work is made from found objects of all kinds, from spaghetti sauce to concret, with lots of sculpted wood included. I hardly ever make a series of work, each peice being different from the next, although you my find some connecting links. I am also a writer and have incorperated some writing and even the titles of the peice in some works. And as with my writing there is a lot of humor and sociel comentary.
My goal in art is to make people feel better for having seen it.
