TIME IN TOWN:
I’ve spent a few winters here starting in 2008. We moved here year-round in 2021.
PLACE OF BIRTH:
Steamboat Springs, CO
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE:
Golden rule
FAVORITE BOOK(S):
The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace, and travel writing by Peter Moore
FAVORITE MOVIE(S):
Ronin, Top Gun, The Lion King, and anything by Almodóvar or Malick
FAVORITE MUSIC/MUSICIAN:
Grunge
FAVORITE PIG-OUT FOOD:
Pizza and wings
FAVORITE HIKE:
Silver Lake with a fly rod
MOST INFLUENCED BY:
My parents
ACTOR WHO WOULD PLAY ME:
A young William H. Macy or Eric Stoltz
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE:
The embarrassing dad
I WOULD ALMOST NEVER:
Blame the dog
ACCOMPLISHMENT I AM PROUDEST OF:
Fatherhood
ART EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
MFA in Painting from the University at Albany, SUNY. I also have experience as a college professor, museum installer, and fabricator in an art foundry.
FAVORITE ARTIST/WORK OF ART, IN GENERAL:
Impossible to pick! Leon Golub, Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer, Edgar Degas
FAVORITE ARTIST/WORKS OF ART, SLATE GRAY:
Although I’m not usually focused on abstraction, I’m really fascinated by the work of Lisa Pressman. Her work seems to be the result of a disciplined process of introspection and experimentation. Like all great art, it’s not principally about aesthetics, and the end result is unknowable ahead of time.