BIO
I was born in 1946 in New York City, where I still live and work. In the 1970s I created a series of porno-satirical collages which exploited covert homoeroticism in mass market magazine ads, and which were exhibited in the seminal "It's a Gender Show" at Group Material in 1981.

I turned to 35 mm photography in the early '80s, desiring to record the visual delights and peculiarities I encountered in the city and on my travels. I thus produced a multifarious trove of color images which I have used in composing a series of innovative diptychs, first exhibited in 1996 at the National Arts Club.

Concurrently, I was working with male models, posed naked in the rooms, hallways and most notably the kitchen of my rambling Chelsea apartment. The photographs from this black-and-white series have been exhibited extensively as well as published in various media.

My art-making has been influenced principally by two men of the theater, Jerzy Grotowski and Charles Ludlam - strange bedfellows, to be sure.  Grotowski’s theory of Poor Theater and his emphasis on the role of physical impulse in the creative act, and Ludlam’s gay gaze and his embrace of the Ridiculous are the touchstones of my practice.  I found a mentor in the artist Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, and there have been several essential muses, some of whose images grace these pages.

My photography has been exhibited at:  the National Arts Club; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; Sara Lawrence College; the Menschel Photography Gallery at Syracuse University; mdh fine arts and ClampArt (New York).  It has been published in:  Self-Exposure: the Male Nude Self-Portrait; Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation; The James White Review; The Archive: Journal of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation and Visual AIDS’ Play Smart AIDS awareness broadside.  My photographs are in the permanent collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and the Libraries of Cornell University.  I have worked as an Assistant Teacher as well as Guest Artist at the International Center of Photography.