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Introduction

I am largely a self-taught artist who has taken art courses in the community with pastel artists
like Michel Tiffet. The Montreal Art Center in Griffintown has been my home since 2012 where I
exhibit annually but I have also exhibited in my Plateau neighborhood. I began professionally in
Italy while being a medical student and subject tutor. Oil painting relaxed me. I was able to
exhibit not only in the Rome but in outlying cities that ha festivals in the 90s like Spoleto. The
suburbs of Rome also provided me with a chance to show my diverse palate. Ciampino had a
carnival in 1994, Monterotondo had a street fair in 1995 in the north-east and Tivoli to the east
also provided me with venues where I was able to show my work. I competed in a centennial
exposition honoring the birth of St Anthony in 1995 winning second prize for a painting on the
theme of the saint that is at the church of St Anthony in Rome. I took my art to Yemen in 1997
where I continued to teach and tutor school curriculum courses. One drawing landed in the
gates of the Old City and I had met an exiled Lahaji prince who supplied me with a picture of
the old port of Aden which inspired an Indian ink drawing I left in his charge.

Recently I have showed my work at a New York festival in 1998. I had several neighborhood
cafes on the plateau in NDG and Griffintown Montreal since 1999, exhibited at Galerie Artus
(2000-2003 ),Galerie 1040 ( 2000, 2005, 2010 and 11), L’Espace Contemporain (2014-15), and
the former Station C in the gay village ( 2004-2005). I had a painting included in a text by Mr
Avmor ( 2004) , whose offices are now a museum on rue St Helene. I have also tried to have my
work auctioned to raise money for Playwrights of Montreal in 2006 and sent piece of work to a
Just For Laughs contest in 2004. Now I am at the Montreal Art Center since 2012 where I exhibit
regularly ( 2014, 2016 and 2017 ) and have also had my work shown at an eldercare residence
in the Cote de Neiges district from 2015 until 2017.

Press Release:

What inspired me was the need to see the world differently by allowing the lines of my paintings to take
more complex shapes that would not normally be found, moving even further away from the real world
I wanted the observer to have fun interpreting the different dimensions, and to be attracted by
tempting focal points. I have recently wanted to go a step further than in previous exhibitions on the
multidimensional exhibitions done since 2014 where architecture and landscapes were jostled into a
colorful upheaval. Then I experimented with building forms and less with the terrain they were on, but
then I opted to move towards expressing land forms from a fresh geometrical perspective and
incorporate previous playful themes. Most often the viewer comes away with another perspective
One sees the influence of Man and His Windows from 2005 and even further back one sees that here is
an artist who likes to tease his viewer into his geometrical abstract perspectives; he holds back from
opening image details too much so that it continues to vibrate in its surroundings. I have often admired
the use of light of the impressionists and that is what I started with but in time I learned to build
pictorial puzzles, snippets of life stuck together in bizarre collages. Nothing makes sense in this world of
apparent upheaval I thought this continued theme to my multidimensional world is a testament to the
unstable politics we live under.

Multidimensional Views 6 done in 2014

A gallery view of 2 pieces in 2016 at the Montreal Art Center

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