Resume After earning an Honors Degree in Marketing, my first job was as an Art Director for a Commercial Printer. A turn of events in the following years led me through careers as an Electrical Engineer and subsequently as a Product Marketing Manager for Gerber Scientific. My glass panel design and fabrication career began with basic glass cutting, which I learned in a class presented to me as a Birthday present. It was in these classes that I recognized an opportunity to lift what was presented to me as a craft, to a higher level of expression and quality. In the first public presentation of my work, I was honored to receive a Best Of Show Award in Fine Arts, as well as an Award in Crafts. Among my architectural works, are included three, five-foot windows of Victorian style, designed to compliment a building's restoration. My works are also on display at various galleries and vineyards on Eastern Long Island. Artists Statement Glass is historically a flat and inflexible medium of expression. I leverage the design and fabrication limitations presented in stained glass, using them to distinguish the project. Described as "paintings with glass", my subjects are chosen either from naturally occurring, visually complex patterns, or observations of intricate and dynamic concepts. After making original sketches to capture my idea, as well as the idea's elemental relationships, I create an artwork which compensates for the production restrictions imposed by working with glass. It is my particular challenge to redesign the image so the liabilities imposed within glass production actually become a design asset. One of the most striking design limitations presented by glass, is the necessity of having "lead lines". These distracting breaks in the design, result from a large element being presented in two or more pieces because it is either too large, or can't be easily cut in that pattern. I build these "lines that go nowhere" into the design in order to enrich and accentuate the perspective or drama of the image's overall impact. My designs are also faithful to the images' continuity. It is critical that an image, whose impact is based on the relationship of its elements, not have components missing because of fabrication difficulties. I frequently produce pieces of glass smaller than a fingernail in order to complete the balance and visual flow of my work. One of the most obvious fabrication restrictions presented with glass, is the paucity of color selection. Careful selection of each glass, however, can enrich the design through transmitted light's natural drama. I select each glass element's color and texture, in order to further engage the viewer in the stained glass images' inherently vibrant nature. In order to further insure visual integrity, by providing continuity of line widths, I fabricate each glass piece to fit the pattern exactly, and select came and foil thickness in order to better provide prospective. The resulting details of my thematically stylized designs, impact the observer with a richness of intensified color and texture, drawing the viewer into a relationship with the artwork and its elements. © copyright 2003-2006 point silence glass work. all rights reserved.