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Biography:
I was born and raised in Miami. When I decided to study architecture in college, Morris Lapidus, whom my father knew, suggested I go to the Univ. of Oklahoma. There I met and studied under one of America’s truly great architects and teachers, Bruce Goff.
After graduation, I designed a freeform building that still stands in Hialeah, FL. But soon after that, I left architecture, knowing that trying to create freeform architecture would be a futile pursuit.
Through the years, I did, however, continue to pursue my love of freeform aesthetics by sculpting. Now that I am retired, I have been able to focus more time and effort into my sculpting, and thus my affiliation with Art Fusion.
Philosophy:
First and foremost, I am deeply influenced by nature’s beauty and strive to emulate that beauty by creating abstract, sculptural compositions of beautiful forms, with beautiful colors and textures.
I am also influenced by the fact that everything in nature has its own aesthetic combination of forms, colors, textures, and ornamentation - parrots, orchids, butterflies, tropical fish, and all other natural phenomena…each has its own aesthetic “identity”. I wanted each of my sculptures to have that same characteristic. Therefore, each of my sculptures is unique and different than the others. Each becomes what I term, an “Organic Entity”.
I create my forms by hand-molding clay by means of a spontaneous, intuitive flow, allowing them to develop without any preconceived result in mind. The great painter, Matta, once wrote, “if you set out with a preconceived result in mind, you can only do what you already know. To start with intuition alone leads to the unknown, the new and the creative”. I start each sculpture as if it were my first – and then let it take me, as it’s developing, as far into the unknown as it will. Nature never quit in completing an aesthetic creation. I try not to, as well.
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