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My early paintings as a graduate student at Pratt Institute were representational, images of the figure influenced by Picasso, among others. For awhile I painted repetitive patterns of concave and convex surfaces inspired by the soft swellings and concavities of breasts and navels. In the mid-1960s, influenced by "shaped canvases" I had seen, I returned to the concave/convex play of surface, but this time in bas relief, stretching canvas over a wood frame and painting it in flat shades of grey. One of the later ones I did (1970-1971) was finished with epoxy resin applied directly to the canvas (in the Newark museum). Before moving from the east 20s to Soho in 1969, I had started making free-standing sculptures using canvas and acrylic paint, opening up areas with "windows" and raised surfaces in strict geometric designs. During the 1970s these became monoliths with severely cut niches and bold protrusions, mostly executed in wooed covered with canvas and polyester resin. At some point I moved away from the confines of strict rectilinear contours to create tall, still monolithic sculptures, with shaped contours that suggest anthropomorphic forms. In the early 1990s I cut into some of the columnar pieces I had made during the 1980s, altering them by opening them up. The work I made during the 1990w progressed from there, with more and more open forms, and my sculptures has continued in that general direction. Additional images of this artist's work can be viewed in our gallery. 
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