Virtually all my work features original poetry, often scribbled into wet paint with a chopstick. I read dictionaries for pleasure and have written poems for as long as I can remember. I taught myself to paint at age 36 to make my poems more engaging, because 8-1/2”x11” Times New Roman just wasn't conveying enough of the joy and pain, sunshine and rain.

Right out of college I spent five years on Wall Street as a vice-president of investments, but something vital was missing, so I left finance for the MFA program in Film at University of Miami. Since then I've been an advertising executive, copywriter, TV documentary producer/director, magazine publisher and Donald Sutherland's personal assistant on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 2000 I launched Streaming Media Magazine which won Folio's illustrious 2001 Ozzie award for Best Overall Design.

I’ve been a full-time painter, curator and inner city youth arts mentor in the Bay Area since 2001.

See my paintings at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery.

Artist Resume

Gallery Representation
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005      Scratching Words on Canvas, Red Ink Studios Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             Nordstroms, San Francisco, CA
2004      Cornell Club of France, Paris France
2003      Rumi, Miami Beach, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006      Studio 333 Gallery, Sausalito, CA
             Chillin, Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
             2006 Annual Juried Exhibition of Marin Artists, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
2005      Anon Salon Sea of Dreams, San Francisco, CA
             Storm, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
             LiveArt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             RockPaperScissors Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
             PAPER!AWESOME!, Pigman Gallery, SF, CA
             Cafe 05 ARTworkSF, SomArts Gallery, SF, CA
             Ligne Roset, San Francisco, CA
             Roshambo, Sausalito Arts Commission, Studio 333 Gallery, Sausalito, CA
             pARTicipate, Monkey Fresh Studios, San Francisco, CA
2004      Curbside, Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             Red Ink Studios Gallery, San Jose, CA
             The 88, Brussels, Belgium
             pARTicipate, Monkey Fresh Studios, San Francisco, CA
2003      Poets and Painters, Sculptors and Scribes, Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
             Celebrity, Arc Gallery, Surfer’s Paradise, Australia
             Pieces Gallery, Healdsberg, CA
             New Venues New Media, Propeller, San Francisco, CA
             The Tower, Brussels, Belgium
2002      Churn Magazine’s Mega Art Show, Location 3, San Francisco, CA
             W Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Selected Installations / Performances
2004      PhotoBooth, diPietro Todd Salon, San Francisco, CA
2003      Juicy Camp, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV
             stuART, 410 Jessie Street, San Francisco
2002      Second Sundays Slam Poetry Jam, Justice League, San Francisco, CA
             Juicy Camp, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV
2001      Side Burning Man, Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV

Awards / Achievements
2006-02 Artist-in-Residence, Artspan Youth Arts Programs, SF, CA
2005-03 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lead Artist - Youth Arts Festival, SF, CA
2001      Founder/Publisher, Streaming Media Magazine - Winner 2001 Folio Magazine’s Ozzie              Award - Best Overall Design
1998      Producer/Director, “Inside Cycling ‘98,” television documentary for the Outdoor Life              Network.

Additional Professional Experience
1991-99 Specials Publisher, Inside Communications, Boulder, CO
1986-90 Vice-president of Investments, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Smith Barney, Miami, FL

Publications
2004      www.nitevibe.com
2003      San Francisco Bay Guardian
2001      Streaming Media Magazine
             www.burningman.com
2000      Streaming Media Magazine
1994      National Library of Poetry
             Treasured Poems of America

Education
1990-91 University of Miami Graduate School of Film Production
1985      Cornell University, BS with Honors

Born 1963, Miami Florida