Bill’s abstract and figurative images touch upon something essential. A lifelong student of Eastern and Western metaphysical thought, Bill’s paintings and drawings combine Dadaist poetics with the expressiveness of the brush gesture to create compositions and figures which offer a paradox.
The works are bold and assertive yet their openness invites viewers to imagine their own story line. Bill’s Zen method involves tracing the way nature “behaves” rather than just the way it “appears”. As the creative manifestation of the mind of a skilled jazz pianist as well as painter, Bill’s work combines the principles of music, color and drawing in exciting abstracts which have been described as “symphonies of space, form and color” and in fluid figure drawings which have been characterized as ” lightning bursts of energy condensed into a fine line”.
An internationally represented American artist, Bill studied painting and drawing with renowned teachers Victor D’Amico at the Museum of Modern Art’s Institute of Modern Art, East Hampton, NY and leading American figurative painter Fletcher Martin at the Albany Institute of Art, in Albany, NY. His brightly colored spontaneous abstractions