As the director and main content creator for Art Curious-Contemporary (AC-C), I bring decades of experience, including visual art and technology, to the virtual art space. AC-C is a diverse platform for reviews of the visual arts and related technologies. Coming soon is a gallery page for promoting projects I find forward-looking. Explorations, announcements, and reviews will include digital photography, collaborations with Generative Art, installations, and long-standing art practices such as printmaking and painting.
I am a graduate of Brooklyn College (MFA, Drawing+Painting), where I studied with Lee Bontecou, who deeply informed my work. While painting was my focus, I also explored lithography and intaglio printmaking techniques. Philip Pearlstein, Lois Dodd, William T. Williams, and Allan D’Arcangelo were other artists at Brooklyn College who influenced me in making contemporary art – all of them driven by a unique curiosity about art-making, its histories, technologies, and effects on image-making.
I began my art career in New York as a lithographer, privileged to work with some of the most inventive artists of the time. As a lithographer for Trestle Editions, by age twenty-four, I was recognized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for multiple large-scale and limited-edition print collaborations the press created with Robert Motherwell. Soon after this honor, I founded Oberon Press LTD NYC, my press in Tribeca, riding the wave of the enormous interest in limited edition prints.
As the New York Art World collectively began another shift, my gaze turned to the young but burgeoning field of computers. I taught myself systems and networking engineering after taking apart my first computer down to the nuts and bolts and putting it back together again (much to the relief of my partner). Fast forward some years, and I was involved in creating global networks that connected and still connect people in ways never before seen or experienced. These have been exciting and reorienting times, yet I always maintained an active interest in art.
In the early 2020s, I started experimenting with “Generative Art” based on machine learning (ML), a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have been developing images based on incidental views of my everyday life that spark my curiosity. Using one of my two cameras, a Nikon 7200, and my Android phone, and collaborating with AI, has allowed me to evolve my image-making.
Most recently, I began work with one of the largest art houses in the world. This has given me a broad purview of art cultures today. As I have re-tooled my career many times while keeping my eye on the horizon, I continue to wonder what new things might be made, how these things might change our world for the better, and how I might be a part of making that happen. The foundations of Art Curious-Contemporary are based on these inquiries.
We hope you visit Artcurious-Contemporary often as more content evolves.
