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ARTIST STATEMENT My life’s mission as an artist is to discover a new way of looking at things – a new vision that makes me feel better about myself and the world around me. My artwork represents a lifetime of reflection and transfiguration of stored memories. I have been a landscape artist for the last thirty years. Recently, I have been producing paintings using acrylics or pastels. The major portion of my recent work consists of nighttime representations of lights or images of the city. I am interested in capturing basic geometric relationships and if possible, some of the spiritual impact, of urban cityscapes. When I start creating a new work of art, I begin by recalling a variety of visual images I have stored in my memory. Some of these memories are very fresh, being images seen only days or weeks before. But some are from my childhood. I seek to discover in each stored image its essence: qualities that had the power to impress and astonish me when I first saw the image. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION I have recently retired to Bella Vista, Arkansas. However, I was born and raised in Chicago and have an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. I worked on an advanced degree in Art History at the same university and studied in Europe on fellowship for a summer. My interest in art has been long-standing. My father was a commercial artist who did his renderings in pastels. This is what started me on my career. During the last thirty years, I have been juried into many national exhibitions and one-man shows and had gallery representation in New York, Chicago and in many other cities. In addition, agents and publishers of my limited edition serigraphs have sold hundreds of my prints to galleries and collectors. I have completed works of art for galleries, corporations and private collectors as far away as Canberra, Australia, where William Pei & Associates, architects, selected a suite of my limited edition prints for installation in a hotel they designed.