1971 GRID SERIES

My early work was inspired by everything I had seen as a child in Europe, which sparked my interest in the “making” of art.

This was further fueled by a fascination with color after taking a color theory class in my second year of college.

I also saw what contemporary artists in NYC were doing. By the time I graduated, I had met Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, a California Realist, and Jack Beal. Ramos and Beal were realists who were very relatable, but what Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and others were doing also fascinated me. I started thinking of paintings as objects, not just “pictures.”