FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
1. Where did you go to art school?
2. What art training do you have?
3. What do you do besides being an artist?
4. Where do you get your ideas?
5. What’s your signature style?
6. What’s your process for creating these large 3-D paintings?
7. What’s Pop Art 3-D painting?
8. What's a Corner Painting?
Answers to FAQ
1. Where did you go to art school?
I didn’t go to art school. I have a business degree from the Wharton School, a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a graduate law degree from Temple University Law School. Many famous artists didn't go to art school and were self-taught, such as Paul Gauguin, Maurice Utrillo, Henri Rousseau, and Horace Pippin.
2. What art training do you have?
I am self taught. I am a keen observer, and trial and error is a great teacher. Many famous artists, such as Paul Gauguin, Maurice Utrillo, Henri Rousseau, and Horace Pippin, were also self-taught.
3. What do you do besides being an artist?
I’m a full time artist. I enjoy time with my family, travel, friends, movies, reading, and sports cars. I enjoy visiting museums to see the work of other artists. Several times a year I visit the Barnes Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum.
4. Where do you get your ideas?
This question always surprises me. My ideas come out of my mind. My mind gets them from my many experiences. I always hope my ideas will resonate with others.
5. What’s your signature style?
My signature style is to create huge Pop Art 3-D paintings on shaped stretched canvas. I explore contemporary issues such as the nature of existence, disorientation, alienation, loneliness, unrequited love, complex relationships, conflict, unrest, war, greed, unfulfilled dreams, yearning, and boredom. And I do it in a Pop Art way, that is with familiar, recognizable subjects from contemporary culture, and in 3-D.
6. What’s your process for creating these large 3-D paintings?
For the details of creating these large Pop Art 3-D paintings, please click here.
7. What’s Pop Art 3-D painting?
My paintings are of subjects from contemporary culture, thus Pop Art. They are also in 3 dimensions, or 3-D. So my paintings combine Pop Art with 3-D.
8. What's a Corner Painting?
A corner painting is a painting designed to hang inside a corner, projecting in both directions at a 90 degree angle. I came up with this idea because I saw unused space, space that could use some literal or figurative brightening up. Many people hang something in the middle of a wall and there is nothing in the corner. In fact, many people think of corners as dark or dirty. I want to change that and use my corner paintings to give joy when one looks in the corner.