I received a BFA from Parsons/New School in NYC and an MFA from CalArts. In addition I have an MA in Comparative Literature/Critical Theory and an MA in Visual Studies, both from UC Irvine, where I also taught for several years.

My academic research focused on the work of JF Lyotard – on the literary side, his 1971 PhD dissertation Discours, Figure, which was a rethinking of the role and function of the figural, and on the visual side, the large scale exhibition he curated for the Pompidou Center in 1985 called Les Immateriaux, in which he sought to reframe curatorial practice and the arts themselves as transdisciplinary and intersecting with developments in technology, the sciences, architecture and other fields, in effect presenting a new articulation of the concept of the spatial.

Ultimately my research led me back to creative practices and so I left the PhD program I was in to focus on the making of things rather than solely the thinking about them. My current focus and ultimate goal is to integrate my theory and research work with my various creative practices and that is a currently evolving process...