Early Work: Paintings, Book Covers and More

I was nursing a beer at the Deer Park Tavern outside of Wilmington, Delaware when I ran into Freddie Stiert, a mathematics professor at the University of Delaware. I wanted to leave the college and I was complaining about the lack of this and that, and thought I was ready to be a professional in New York City. Freddie just looked at me and said, “Look, if you think you’re ready, then you should just go for it. I’d do it.” And so the next day I was packing my car and driving the New Jersey Turnpike back to home.

I found an ad for the Nyack Academy of Fine Arts, an old brick building on the corner of Broadway and Main Street above a pizza joint where photographers and ballet dancers had already set up studios. Moving into the second floor I started to paint these pictures.

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