I was born in 1940 and grew up in Brooklyn. I studied at Cooper Union in NYC, Skowhegan in Maine and got an MFA at San Francisco Art Institute in 1964. I won a Fulbright Fellowship and lived in Crakow, Poland for a year. I taught painting at the SFAI from 1965 to 1966. I have also been a professional musician since I was 15 and in March of 1966 I joined the rock and roll band Big Brother & The Holding Co. From then until 1979 I played music, recorded and toured all over the world with many different musical artists. In 1979 I returned to visual art, mostly printmaking but since then I have worked in many different media. For the last 42 years my work has evolved and that evolution has moved through different styles, media and directions: abstraction, realism, illusionism geometry, pop imagery, found objects, mixed media, etc. I consider myself lucky to have had the freedom to explore and have not felt the need or the desire to establish a mono-fixation or the commercial p