[1] He achieved a place of prominence through his small scale paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language.
[3] He spent his youth in the New Jersey suburbs, admiring New York culture from afar before moving there after graduating high school.
Among his significant exhibitions were surveys at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1987, Ludwig Museum in 2007 and Fisher Landau Center in 2008.
Other exhibitions include, 70 Years of Abstract Painting - Excerpts, 2011, curated by Stephanie Buhmann at Jason McCoy Gallery, New York.
[6] His work was written about and admired by art critics including Peter Schjeldahl, Marjorie Welish, John Yau and Robert Storr.