Impossible Images 

I am a painter and a photographer.

I use computers to combine my painting and my photography, to create art which is not easily rendered with either painting or photography, or with any other conventional media.  I call this technique PhotoGraphics.

As a teenager I studied painting with Polish artist Leo Cizes and later, at New York’s Art Students League.  In the 1960s, I became interested in photography, but my art has always been about crafting pictures rather than taking pictures. 

In 1968 I founded Exposure Gallery on New York’s lower East side.  During the1960’s, I exhibited my work there and at several other East Coast galleries. A.D. Coleman,  the photography critic of the New York Times described me as a technical master. My photographs from that period were one of a kind images individually crafted using bleaches, dyes, and toners. You can find examples of this work from the 1960s here.  

In 1970 my wife Betty and I moved from Manhattan to Berkeley California. Impressed by the amazing flora of Northern California, we began crafting Oshibana, pictures made with pressed flowers. In the 1970’s, our Flora and Wilderness Cards were sold at scores of galleries and museum stores throughout coastal California.

In 1985, I was introduced to digital media, which profoundly influenced my work. Where once I painted with colors, I could now paint with images. Today my work includes both traditional black and white photography as well as Photo-Graphics. 

Exhibitions

Group Show, Queens College, NYC, 1964

Group Show, Uptown Gallery, NYC 1968

One Artist Show, Exposure Gallery, NYC, 1969

Group Show, Westby Gallery, Rutgers University, 1970

'One Artist Show, Down', Studio Show, Creston Rd Gallery, Berkeley CA,  2004

One Artist Show, Looking Up', Studio Show Creston Rd, Berkeley CA, 2008

One Artist Show, Art of Dr. Shen', Studio Show Creston Rd. Berkeley, 2018

Group Show, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 2021