I destroy to create.

My work is part of the Techspressionism art movement, an artistic approach reflecting the expressive potential of electronic media.

I’ve always been a traditional artist, initially painting, then mostly photography. One day I accidentally destroyed my images to their most basic pixels and took them in all sorts of random directions. I played around with a variety of digital techniques and transformed my images to something I didn’t recognize but quite liked.

It then dawned on me that while artists have used ‘electronic media’ since Warhol, we haven’t had a formal movement that fully embodied it. Now, more than ever, technology is at the forefront of so much of our experiences. My roots in marketing pushed me to position my new creations, if only in my own mind, and I started to use the term Techspressionism to delineate this new approach.

Shortly thereafter, I was contacted by anther other artist (Colin Goldberg) who had independently used the term before me and for the same reasons. My use of the term validated his conviction that indeed a new art movement was needed. He marched forward to unite artists worldwide and grow the movement to what it is today.

What’s my process? It’s creative destruction. It’s never linear.  Sometimes the underlying technology of imagery is used to glitch" images" turning pixels into paintbrushes, randomly corrupting, bending and destroying data. Other times I blend, collage, draw and sometimes paint on my creations, going back and forth between traditional and digital. The final result is an unpredictable aesthetic that defers to the whim of technology.

I studied art at the New York School of the Arts but photography has always been a primary passion and a self-taught hobby.