cola 2013 (with label) on subway/graffiti (2103) Painting by Klob

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA
Studied with John Grillo, a student of Hans Hoffman. Presented my work in person to Curators from ICA - Boston, Rose Art Museum - Boston. Exhibited in juried exhibitions at Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA 2013 and 2014.

Also Influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Rauschenberg, Klee, Dubuffet, children's art, surrealism, dada, pop art, Jimi Hendrix and high-energy jazz(e.g., Coltrane), etc.  Many various influences!
Surrealism also had an impact - its super-focus and startling sharpness helped provide a basis for the glistening effects I like to add to some works. Itsrearrangement of shape and form helped me to melt normal shapes into new forms, which could better be used to express their energy. The collage workof Rauschenberg and others further contributed to the breaking down of the normal arrangement of form.
Paul Klee and others developed a language using symbols. Children in their art create symbols for well-known entities that often form a basic vocabulary torepresent things commonly found in their world. Dubuffet expanded on this idea. I try to add in symbols known to modern industrial culture, in the manner ofPop Art, but using basic industrial materials themselves, more in the brute manner of Dubuffet, children, or early cultures. Street art, graffiti, and comic bookart also influenced me, opening more options, for examples, for finishing treatments.
I do not feel that use of the basic materials of painting has been exhausted, or that art now must explore new materials/media to be able to make a validstatement. I try to use materials created by my society and culture, which represent the elemental building blocks of that culture, so that people viewing mywork can more readily associate with the work. That also ensures that the work is directly associated with the culture, in a way.
I have derived my own understanding of what a finished art work should look like, and this has taken time, shedding the socialized view of what a commercialpiece of art needs to look like. This is one of the things that separate fine art from mere illustration.
Finally, since, to me, the spiritual is directly self-evident, it is also present in my work. The political and socio-political worlds are foreign to my art.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1952
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary American Artists