After graduation from CIA with my BFA, my Dad offered to let me have the rear portion of his factory building to live in and create studio space. Four of my best friends from CIA joined with me to clean up and make “The Factory” a real place to live and work. We had to make a kitchen from an old lunchroom and put in a shower in the old locker room. Fortunately for us, the rent and utilities were free. We each had as much space as we wanted to both live and paint.

It was here that I started doing my tapestry or unstretched canvases. I called these my “Roller Paintings” since they were done with various sizes and textures of paint rollers using Acrylic Paints. It was in 2018, when I was looking thru an old trunk of what I thought was saved muslin fabric, that I found several of these works folded up and in great shape.

There was other work I did, usually made up of multiple stretched canvases that were made up of parallel lines which when seen from anywhere along the painting appear to be in perspective and not parallel. Central National Bank bought the largest one that was made up of 3 pieces 4’ high and 9’ wide and intended to be hung 4” apart. I don’t know if it is still up.

There is not a lot of these works left as I sold 9 paintings to a collector before going to NYU for my MFA in painting.