"Visualist" is a term for someone who provides creative visual leadership. A visualist thinks and communicates...well, visually. It's about visual story-telling and information-sharing. A visualist helps readers and other consumers of news and information navigate and digest information in ways that are difficult, if not impossible, using words alone. Visualism includes the disciplines of graphics, illustration, photography and design. A well-rounded visualist also has strong skills in the areas of reporting, research and writing. I take pride in having aquired leadership skills as well, especially leadership of creative people, which is a difficult and rewarding art form in itself.
I have been an artist most of my life, working for newspapers for
almost 20 years. I've been the Art Director for Editorial of the San Jose
Mercury News for five years. I'm currently re-training myself for an online
career. Want to see my new brag
site?
I was born in Bethesda, Maryland August 28, 1960. Although I moved around a lot in my early years, spending time in St. Louis and New York City, I lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. until I was 18. After graduating from Bishop MacNamara H.S., an all-boys Catholic school, I attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated with a B.F.A. in 1982. I started in the newspaper business as an intern in 1981. I've worked for the Chicago Tribune as well as the Orange County Register and the San Jose Mercury News.
I live in the Cambrian district of San Jose with my partner, Robin. My hobbies include the absorption of popular culture - especially science fiction - through print, film and video. I also enjoy stereo photography and toys & gizmos. I'm told I resemble a cross between a young Dan Ackroyd and a poor man's Tim Robbins.
Here are Robin and I at her birthday party.
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I've redesigned and expanded my brag site. Please check it out.
This is one of my favorite pieces from my days at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago. It's a maquette, a model for a larger sculpture,
although in this case I never got around to creating the actual planned
cast paper relief sculpture...I liked the cardboard and acrylic version
so much, I just kept it and forgot about the larger sculpture.
This is an example
of a monoprint silkscreen technique I developed in school. I'd slop
loose, runny ink Jackson Pollak-style onto the screen and then pull
the sqeegee over the whole mess onto paper. It's remarkable how cleanly
the ink would transfer...and how much ink and solvent I used in the
process. The screens had to be cleaned after each pull. I probably lost
many brain cells in the process....
