About the artist:

For thirty eight years I have concentrated my artistic development in the medium of sculpture, specifically bronze and steel casting. In my treatment of patina and surface ornamentation, I have been heavily influenced by the sculpture of Benin and Egypt. Further inspiration came from the philosophy of African sculptors who expressed the idea that there was a spiritual relationship between the artist and their work. An example of this can be seen in my Black Woman Series which depicts a segment of life through a group of seventeen bronze sculptures. The essence of these works is driven by the timeless and universal personalities of Africans and African Americans, as well as others whose origin is Africa. The faces of these women and the myriad stories told in them are not products of chance or accident. They are eons in the making, their spirituality is timeless. The Black Woman Series is a translation of this agelessness into a language that is uniquely my own.

My second major body of work was my Knowledge of Man (KOM) Series I & II which began in the 1970’s with line drawings and became three dimensional. In a group of twenty six works, KOM I was influenced by Egyptian head crowns and the West African practice of head shaping. These influences would guide me in my development. KOM II are contemporary pieces inspired by the choreography of Martha Graham and infused with African elements. The fluidity of movement is highlighted by a spectrum of patinas ranging from warm browns to striking jade greens and brilliant turquoises. The body of work comes as a metaphor to symbolize the ramifications that result from i.e. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc. and other examples of destruction of our environment and planet.

Some of the major sculpture commissions I have received have been from the City of New York; the County of Westchester The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Westchester County Courthouse; The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga of Roland Hayes; the Apollo Theater’s Hall of Fame; the Selchow and Righter Company; the City of Yonkers, the Alfred B. DeBello Sculpture. My work has been shown from Madison Avenue and Soho in New York, and the Miracle Mile in Chicago, to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, in many group and one-man exhibitions throughout the U.S.A. since 1972. It was previously featured as part of the set design on the NBC weekly television program “ESSENCE”, and seen around the world via ABC, CBS, WNET-TV, WPIX-TV, WOR-TV and cable networks since 1986. I have been featured in many newspaper and magazine articles including: The New York Times/Westchester Magazine, the Daily News Magazine, Black Enterprise, Essence, Jet, and the International Review of African American Art.