I was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1953. My father was a fighter pilot in the US Navy and my family moved from the east coast to California and back several times, as well as being posted in Taiwan for several years. Finally settling in California, I received my BA in art from UC Davis in1975. After earning my MFA in sculpture from Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, my wife Sabine Reckewell and I moved to New York City in1983. We lived in a loft in SoHo for 26 years and raised our daughter Emma there. My sculptures and drawings were included in group and solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, Chicago and California as well as institutions such as Artist's Space, The New Museum,The Madison Art Center, The Bedford Gallery and the Berkeley Art Center. I was represented in New York by Patricia Hamilton, Lang and O’Hara Gallery and in California by Chandra Cerrito Contemporary Gallery. Along with making art, I designed and manufactured furniture in New York and worked as an interior designer and contractor. My wife and I owned a furniture and design store in New York and I also exhibited my designs at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and other furniture fairs in New York City. After getting burned-out on life in Manhattan, in 2008 Sabine and I sold our downtown loft and moved to Napa, California where we lived and worked for thirteen years. I had a major one person exhibition at Sonoma State University called The Tyranny of Objects which was the culmination of five years of work that dealt with the military and nuclear weapons in sculpture, drawing, prints, installations and photographs. Sabine and I recently returned to the East Coast and settled in Saugerties, NY, where we both have studios and continue our art explorations.