I am a Digital pop artist who grew up in a little town called Schenectady New York that is about as far as you can get from the excitement of New York City. I remember the day I found my passion and a way to escape the boredom of a small town. The day the magic box called television showed me the ultimate story of fantasy, adventure, and creativity. The day the original King Kong came on my tv set and I was addicted for the rest of my life. I was shown that imagination has no limits, and I have spent my life trying to capture that moment of pure imagination. Film and television became my obsession to escape reality and play in a fantasy world. Godzilla, Sinbad, Noir Detectives, adventure, far off lands, bad guys who were cool. I became obsessed with telling my own stories and living in this world of imagination. My Saturdays were spent watching Creature Double Feature, Kung Fu Theater or taking pencil to paper and trying to get my little fantasy world out from my head and share with the world.

At 10 years old I found the next step through the door of imagination when I got my first Marvel Comics book, X-Men number #162. The art! The story! The Characters! The fantasy world! More importantly, these books were all connected to one another. Marvel Comics has created a fantasy world where everything that happened in one book mattered in another book. Unlike Movies and television this world was connected and did not end after 2 hours. No, this imagination world lived, breathed, and continued forever.

I was never satisfied with my ability to take what was in my head and transfer it to paper, so I kept it hidden from the world. That is until the day I meet John Romita Sr. while working at Marvel Comics. The man was my hero. The man was my inspiration. This man was everything I ever wanted to be. I read his comic books so many times they would fall apart. I was now working in the office next to him, unbelievable. More unbelievable is he walked into my office and introduced himself to me and asked to see my artwork. I refused because it was not any good. He said something that day to a 20-year-old kid that changed my life, "I never liked anything I ever drew, now show me your artwork." That was all I needed to hear to enable me to share my imagination with the world. That is the day that this all started!!!

I am an Academy Award Nominated Artist and Grammy award winning Designer. I got his start working at Marvel comics as an artist and editor while still in college. This is where he honed my skills and art style by working with the masters in the field like Stan Lee, John Romita, Frank Miller and many more. Yes, I used to drink beers with Stan Lee.
From there I worked for Disney Animation as an animator and color Designer on the feature film Hunchback of Notre Dame (Multiple Awards) and Disney Interactive Video Game Adaptation. I worked across Multiple Entertainment studios, including Sony Image Works, universal Studios, and 20th Century Fox where I had the opportunity to work on several academy award nominated films as a visual artist and storyboard artist like the film "Hollow Man".
From there I landed the role of Head Creative Director for Warner Brother Studios Music Division where I had the opportunity to worked across multiple music genres and a
variety of artist from around the world, which led to being nominated and winning several Grammy awards for Designer.

That is why the driving aspect of Digital Noir Studios is to tell stories. The unique aspect of my work is that the viewer adds their own imagination and creativity to the story. (like I did as a kid) The viewer becomes part of the art by creating their own interpretation and adding to the story. What is happening? How did the story get here? What is going to happen next? The best part is the viewer is never wrong and can extend the story beyond what they see. I believe that Imagination and Creativity are human's greatest tools, and my art is here to serve in driving that in people.