About the Artist

Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Grows up in Stamford. Painting at Philadelphia College of Art. Reads John Ashbery and Frank O’Hara. Philosophy at Hunter College, New York. Reads Kant. Lives in Paris. Reads Jacques Derrida, Edmund Jabès, Maurice Blanchot. Graduate school in philosophy at Stony Brook University. Reads Jürgen Habermas, John Dewey, Arthur Danto. Writes dissertation, Cultivation: Art and Aesthetics in Everyday Life. Publishes peer-reviewed scholarly articles on the aesthetics of everyday life, taste, and the relationship between art and well-being in journals such as the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, and Estetika. Reads John Koethe. Paints.