About the Artist

The images and themes I work with are drawn from where I've lived, the cultures I grew up with, the languages I heard and spoke, the ideas and the politics of the various communities I have chosen as my own.

I immigrated with my family to the United States in 1952 and spent the next twenty years in New York City. New York is where I first learned about America, its language and its people, and where I began to develop my own imagery. I attended Parson’s School of Design where I studied graphics and in 1960 returned to Paris to spend a year at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. I came back to New York, ended my studies to further explore image making.

I left New York in the ‘70s to move to San Francisco, where I turned to printmaking first trying out a number of techniques but quickly settling on monotyping. I now also work with photo transfers adding another graphic element to the composition and design.

Making what I call “art inside the cracks,” looks to translate life’s unseen and often critical moments into images that go beyond the personal. Titles and themes are often identified through key words and bits of phrases incorporated in each print. The use of language, French and English, serves as a graphic element and helps me label and group prints thematically. The prints included in the gallery pages are samples from series and commissions I have worked on.