Through Quantum Foam Studio, I hope my deeply personal, emotionally connected work stirs curiosity or wonder in you. I am a lifelong drawer and doodler, but only started painting—and naming and keeping what I paint—in 2019. It was a particularly turbulent time in my life, and painting turned out to be a surprisingly effective (and enjoyable) kind of therapy. So, many of these weird little (and not
so little) paintings have deep emotional significance for me. I do not expect them to be meaningful to anyone else, but am gratified if any of them stir a bit of wonder, or curiosity, or something else entirely in you. If you’re wondering about the name, Quantum Foam Studio, it is a nod to my fascination with the baffling and endlessly engaging quantum realm. This utterly nonsensical theory, preposterously accurate in its predictive power, tells us a strange, ultimately unknowable fuzziness governs the fundamental nature of reality. The elementary particles are not real, after all; they form a world of potentialities and possibilities rather than one of things or facts. I hope wandering this gallery evokes potentialities or possibilities of one kind or another for you. I am originally from Malden, Massachusetts, the end of the Orange Line, and though I’ve not lived there for nearly forty years, it will always be home. I’ve lived all over the country, from Ann Arbor, Michigan to Tucson, Arizona to Ellicott City, Maryland; the culture and geography of each place has left a different kind of imprint on me. I currently can be found in central New Jersey with my two cats, Aubrey and Maturin. I am the proud father of three grown sons and the newly minted grandfather to the most beautiful baby boy in the history of ever.