I'm an architect, artist, designer, and entrepreneur based in Brooklyn, New York. For more than three decades I've been designing homes, creating public art, building companies, and bringing people together around ideas that make places and lives better.
I draw constantly. Some days I draw or paint at home in the morning and go straight to the office to design. Sometimes I come home inspired by something we explored during the day and paint again for hours. My family is used to it.
Over time I realized the same ideas were moving through all of it; painting, architecture, public art, glass, drawing. The line I trace at midnight shows up in a staircase the following week. Music is always on. Some of that energy finds its way into the line.
In architecture, I think about how people move through a house, where a stair opens to reveal the floor above, how light changes as you climb, and where one space lets you see into another. The paintings work the same way: where a line moves, where it holds, what the eye wants to follow.
Crescendo is a 62-foot glass installation in the New York City subway system. It started as a small sketch.
Different scale. Same drawing.
None of it happens alone. The architects, designers, craftspeople, and fabricators I work with every day are part of how everything becomes what it is. I know how lucky that is.
Brooklyn, New York
Available for commissions via Teal Canvas.