ABOUT

To begin with, Spirit must be Life. Then, because it is Life, it must be Love, because as the undifferentiated Principle of Life, it cannot do otherwise than tend to the fuller development of life in each individual, and the pure motive of giving greater enjoyment of life is Love.

Then, because it is Life guided by Love, it must also be Light, that is to say, the primary all-inclusive perception of boundless manifestations yet to be. Then from this proceeds Power because there is no opposing force at the level of pure Spirit. Then because Spirit is Life, Love, Light and Power, it is also Peace again for the simple reason that being the Spirit of the Whole it cannot set one part in antagonism with another.

Next the Spirit must be Beauty, because on the same principle of Wholeness it must duly proportion every part to every other part, and the due proportioning of all parts is Beauty. And lastly, the Spirit must be Joy because it cannot do otherwise than find pleasure in the self-expression which its works afford and in the contemplation of the limitlessness of the Creative Process.

Born: Minneapolis, MN, 1954
Education: Concord Academy, 1969 - 1972; Vassar, 1972 - 1976; National Academy of Arts, 1996 - 2000
Work: House Beautiful Magazine, 1977 - 1979; Artforum Magazine, 1979 - 1987; PIOL, 2010 - 2015
Painter, 1990 - Present