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"Opposing Forces" - 6 feet x 24 feet, silkscreened on fabric

DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Project -- Emerge Art Walk at the old convention center site, 11th & New York Av NW.

This 4-panel digital mosaic mural represents several ways our society tends to polarize.

The individual titles are: 1. Haves and Have Nots, 2. A Smoking Controversy, 3. Détente, 4. One for All and All for One

An edition of Blockcut Monprints will soon be available

Dedication Ceremony, Friday, April 11th, 2008, 12 noon- 1:30pm

A short video on the DCCAH Blog site.

"Celestial Terrestrial Sphere, Eastern Market" - 4 feet x 4 feet

DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Project.

Works by artists exhibiting at the market were selected to be reproduced on Eastern Market's temporary East Hall.

Blockcut Monprints are available. See Blockcuts.

Dedication Ceremony, Saturday, April 19th, 2008, 12 noon- 1:30pm

DCCAH Competition Entry

License Plate Design for The DC Commmission on the Arts & Humanities on the theme "Artistic License"

The left side or emblem area features a typographic design with the words "ARTISTIC LICENSE" recalling the design of the DC Flag.

Behind the number area is an image based on a fingerprint pattern. The swirling lines of a fingerprint suggests the free thinking of artistic endeavors as well as the "fingerprint of the artist". In addition, the fingerprint is a means of identity, as is the purpose of a license plate.

The HIl Rag - "Artist Profile" - Sept 2003

Tokyo Shinbaum -"Artist Markets of the World"- June 2000

The Washington Post -"Sandy Spring Thinks Big"- Jan 1998

Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, CA

Marriot, Crystal City, VA

Louis Berger International, Washington DC

U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Washington DC

·Solomon's Passage> A theme I have been working on for severaI years and interpreted in different ways. It's not a literal view of a street, but a view as it lingers in one's memory,vague and idealized.

·Departure> Several years ago I had a recurring dream that I was in New York City, and went to a cloistered European style village nested away in the back streets off the bustling avenues. This village embodied all the elements so uncommon in modern American life. The streets were full of pedestrians, with all their needs a short walk away, and a village square that served as a social and economic center. This dream made a profound impression on me and shortly after I began to paint and draw various versions of what the village might look like. Some time later I came across a book called Lost New York, which featured photographs of buildings and places in New York that had been demolished. It showed an aerial photograph of a picturesque 18th century European village that remarkably resembled my paintings. There were over 100 buildings in a tight cluster, with shops lining the winding streets, built right up against New York's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It was the Belgian Village exhibit at the New York World's Fair of 1964-65, which I attended when I was 6 years old. I believe this childhood experience has influenced my view of life ever since and is the source of this recurring dream. I often use an air balloon image in these drawings as a symbol of the dream. The balloon voyage is like a dream-like. It has a definite point of departure but, like a dream, its path and direction are subject to chance.

·Celestial Terrestrial Sphere> A phantom view of the world, familar but elusive, a dreamland. I enter and leave as if by balloon. There are no roads, maps or urban patterns. It's a surreal stage set that swirls 360° around a center and encompasses earth and sky.

·First Attempt to go to the Moon> The homage to the Dreamer. A man in a village attempts an epic but ill-conceived trip to the moon in an air balloon. Even though his attempt is bound to fail, his dream ultimately inspires others with the technical prowess to accomplish the feat.