As an educator, I spent the majority of professional career as a Professor of Art and Art Education at Dana College. Throughout the years I did a number of large-scale wall reliefs for churches, public buildings and corporations. Perhaps the best known of my artworks are on the outside walls of the Omaha Community Playhouse and Eppley Airfield.
Having retired from teaching, I actively continue to work in my studio creating paintings for private collections and public spaces. As a painter, I like to arrange various art elements in juxtaposition to each other, flat colors against highly textured areas, or expressive strokes against mechanical hard edges. In paintings, I enjoy creating a sense of motion. I believe in creating dynamic compositions rather than static arrangements of shapes. In some of my works further energy is achieved from the use of expressive brush strokes. In other paintings I use shapes that appear in more than one spatial plane at a time. This spatial ambiguity is a direct reflection of my interest in Cubist work.
