About Me

Artist Statement

I have long been interested in the mind: consciousness, perception, thinking, psychology, and the self. My ongoing study of these and related subjects informs much of my abstract painting. The titles of my paintings are clues to concepts that I find fascinating in the philosophy and science of mind.

One idea I’ve found particularly intriguing is the notion of embodiment: that how we make sense of the world is directly shaped by the physical nature of our bodies. For example, the colors we see are due to the pigmentation in our eyes as well as the neural structure of our brain. We generally think of vision as being like photography, where an entire image is presented to us at once. However, vision might be better compared—surprisingly—to touch, since it is only through the continuous probing and movement of our eyes that we are able to construct the world around us. Notions of embodiment, metaphor, and mental “strange loops” are recurrent themes in my work.

My paintings are built up through a slow, deliberate process that consists of thousands of individual brushstrokes applied one at a time. The markings (derived from the mazes I drew as a child) provide a structure in which to explore perceptual effects and the interaction of color. I design interactions between the underpainting and the mark-making and between foreground and background at multiple levels of abstraction. I strive to create paintings where the viewer will want to keep looking, from near and afar, from different angles and in different lighting, always finding something new to stimulate the eye and the mind.

You can find my work year-round at Artists’ Gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey.

Education

My arts education has been self-directed, drawing upon a diversity of resources throughout New York City, including the School of Visual Arts, The New School, and the Art Students League. In addition to the arts, I have studied philosophy of mind and cognitive psychology at The New School. My formal degrees are:

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
M.S. Information Networking (1992)

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
B.S. Computer Engineering (1991)

Solo and Two-Person Shows

Selected Group Exhibitions

Publications and Press

• Universal Principles of Color, Universal Principles of Color, December 7, 2023
• Patterns and Rhythms, Town Topics, September 23, 2023
• Spring Solo Exhibitions at Contemporary Art Center, Town Topics, April 21, 2021
• Featured Artist: Andrew Werth, E-Squared Magazine (Issue #5), Autumn 2020
• Algorithmic, SciArt Magazine (Vol 42, Special Edition), June 2020
• Elusive #4, Color Research and Application (Vol 43, Iss 6, Special Issue: Munsell Centennial), December 2018
• Turing Patterns in Photoshop, Bridges 2015 Conference Proceedings, June 2015
• On Canvas: Patterns of the Mind (by Ilene Dube), U.S.1, November 7, 2012
• Curves and Colors (by Victoria Donohoe), Philadelphia Inquirer, April 22, 2011
• Turning Knobs and Shifting Paradigms, Artbeat: The Art Educators of New Jersey, October 2010
• A Former Computer Engineer Picks Up a Brush (by Susan Van Dongen), U.S.1, August 12, 2009
• Cream of the Crop, Princeton Packet TIMEOFF, February 2, 2007
• Capturing the 'embodied mind' in abstract panels (by Janet Purcell), Trenton Times, May 4, 2007
• Individual Artist Two-Page Spread, Direct Art Magazine, 2006