I cut, paste, draw, recut, and re-paste; sometimes I scrub my art works with steel wool; sometimes I set them on fire. Most times I add or subtract paper (or at times paint) to find out what the piece is about.  

 I often create works in series, typically out of books (preprinted or virgin), on board, canvas or book covers. I will typically use the book to rewrite a story, appropriately existing texts and images and mixing them with my additions or subtractions.

 Born in 1959 to a sign painter,  I grew up on Long Island, New York, attended and graduated from Brown University (1981) with degrees in Linguistics and Semiotics. I spent my post-college life as a journalist, freelance writing about art and advertising (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Art & Antiques, Modern Painters among dozens of publications), and then in 1992 I moved to France.

 In Paris, I produced thousands of collage works, drawings, objects and text pieces. In December 2019, I showed a large group of collage works on paper, canvas and altered objects entitled  “Weekend Plans” at the Karuizawa New Art Museum, in Karuizawa Japan and the New Art Lab in Tokyo. The pandemic kept that show going until 2022!  More recently I exhibited “Paper Chase,” a series of collage works at Belle Beau Gallery in Arles, France (May-June 2022). In March 2023, I opened “Overdose,” – 1000 collage works in America’s heartland, Canton, Ohio – at John Strauss Studios, a massive brick warehouse and custom design furniture factory. I also published several books (Coronaville, Art Farmy)  and in June 2021, launched the art and literary quarterly, Trouble. 

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