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A lot of the paintings on this site are sold, however, Inquiries are Welcome. and reasonable payment plans are available. The larger paintings are unmounted tapestries, and easily shipped, and I ship anywhere.

My Materials and Tools consist of raw pigments and oil, tubed oils, oil crayons, ink, aerosol, dyes, and latex. I paint on canvas, linen, plexiglas, wood, Dacron, metal.

I paint on and with the materials that work for the experience that I’m painting.

I’m not going to explain my paintings, but I will say that I make most of my own paint and work to keep my paintings in a state of flux, suspended in a moment, unfinished, where new colors, images and textures appear with the changing of the light and the spending of time. None of my paintings are what they seem to be at first glance. There are secrets to discover in every one of them.

I've always customized my own clothing, so I’ve always been into art that people could wear, so, I started block printing and dying 100% cotton, denim and wool clothing, wraps and scarves. I also hand paint leather boots, bracelets, bags, belts and jackets.

I’m an actor from New York City, working since 1982.

If I’m known at all, I’m known for the role of Chucky on Kurt Sutter’s “Sons of Anarchy”, a circus of a role that I had a fking blast with, it was blissullly challenging and always surprising. The role flowed into “Mayans MC” and “The Abandons”, where I grew a gigantic beard, learned blacksmithing and how to work with horses as a ferrier.

Stage-wise, the most noteworthy role I had was creating the role of Louis in the 1991 World Premiere of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. You had to be there, it was miraculous. We did Millennium Approaches in full, and when Tony arrived back from Russian River, we dug into Perestroika and performed that, too, in parts. We also did a workshop at the Mark Taper in LA.

I grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, but I always felt more comfortable in Passaic, which bordered nearby. I watched a ton of old films with my grandfather when I was a kid, and my parents regularly took me to concerts in the Garden and to the Theatre, so, when I was twelve, I decided I was gonna be an actor and take part in what I was seeing on film and on stage,live, like rock and roll.

I began studying acting when I was twelve at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. My mother drive me into the city on Saturdays. I studied with working actors, people who showed up hungover, drinking coffee and chain smoking in class. They were hardcore, they had us do Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco, an Absurdist play thst made perfect sence to me. That was the first play I ever did. After a year there, I studied at Lee Strasberg’s school, and after two years there, I went to Stella Adler’s school, where I had an opportunity to sit in on her scene study classes and speak with her afterwards, an experience that taught me deeply about people and life, and about what it meant to be an artist.

After a year of college at Mason Gross School of the Arts, where I studied with Kathryn Gately, I decided to move to NYC, and studied Meisner for two years with Kathryn, which is where I met Kurt Sutter. We weren’t supposed to work while studying, but I snuck a bunch of new plays at 99 seat off-off-Broadway houses and alternative venues. I started writing, also, and did a lot of my own stuff with my friends wherever we could find a Theatre, diner, bar, diner, dance studio or a park.

I got my Equity card with a production of Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets with a bunch of people from the Actor’s Studio and went on to perform a stream of new plays in NYC until 2022. My home-base was Circle Rep’s Lab, run by Michael Warren Powell, where we put up a full length play or a series of one-acts every week, complete with sets on a budget of absolutely nothing. It was an eperimental environment filled with amazingly talented people where I got to test many limits in front of a serious audience, and learned the mechanics of what goes into telling a story.

My first film was “Crossing Delancey”, playing Peter Riegert’s brother Mickey. I’ve worked with hero directors like Joan Micklen Silver, Robert Altman, Hal Hartley and Frank Darabont. My first television role was on "All My Children", where I played a character named Zeno, a punk who carried a white mouse named D'Artagnan. I played a bunch of different characters on all of the “Law and Order” shows; Detective Buenaventura on “Homicide”; also, “NCIS; LA”, “Seinfeld”, “Third Watch”.

I will appear in “Nocturne” with Stephen Graham, Liev Schreiber and Zazie Beetz, premiering on Apple TV on October 30th.

PAINTINGS 1982 TO 2026 in no particular order

PAINTINGS 1982 TO 2026
in no particular order