Bio
I was born in Manhattan in the seventies. We moved to LA when I was 3 and I grew up in Santa Monica. As an only child of an immigrant Israeli and a Jew from Bensonhurst, I grew up traveling a lot.
After going to NYU Film School for 3 semesters I transferred to San Francisco State University to later graduate with a degree in industrial art. After college, and working as a designer for a time, I kept making art outside of 'work' with investigations in new media, photography, drawing, and sculpture. I returned to school for an MFA in studio art at Mills College and I completed it in the spring of 2006. I currently teach art and design at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Art is a place of exploration and discovery. I don't limit myself to specific media and I'm most intrigued by art that combines the unexpected. My work is concerned with the intersections of technology, memory, and media. The remapping of my personal memories as paintings is what currently intrigues me most, but that changes.
Selected Projects
May 2006
Mills College MFA Exhibition
Group show, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
November 2005
Art Relief Katrina
Group show, My Trick Pony Gallery, San Francisco, CA
April — June 2005
America and I
Group show, Jewish Community LIbrary, San Francisco, CA
November 2003
Art Machine
Solo Installation--Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
September 1998—March 1999
Queer Through & Through: An Exploration of the Queer Aesthetic in Queer Driven Design
Curator , The Second National Queer Design Exhibit, San Francisco State University
January 1996—April 1996
'Flawless'
Art Director, NYU Graduate Short Film Production
Education
MFA, Intermedia
Mills College, Oakland, CA
2006
BA, Industrial Arts—Design and Multimedia
San Francisco State University
2000
Awards
Trefethen Award, Mills College
August 2005
Mills College MFA Teaching Assistantship (full year)
August 2005
Herringer Family Foundation Prize for Excellence in Art, Mills College
June 2005
MIlls College MFA Teaching Assistantship (half year)
August 2004
Teaching
Fall 2008 — Current
Instructor
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Currently teaching three courses as part of the BA in Studio Arts program at UNO.
›› Foundations in intermedia art
›› Advanced branding and design for all media
›› Thesis projects in graphic design, photography, and media design
Winter 08
Instructor
FIDM San Francisco – Brand Product Placement
A course that examines the relationship between branding, product placement and the use of media in society. Discusses the media and alternative strategies used in creating a successful brand with special emphasis on on Product Placement, and examines how Media and Pop Culture shape the consumer decision process. Students research branding practices, culture trends and the history/ethics of product placement to explore how to build brand identity and loyalty using the media, entertainment industry and social networking.
Fall 06
Instructor
FIDM San Francisco – Advanced Graphic Concepts
In this advanced, portfolio focused course, students create a new brand from concept to pitch and mockups. Working in teams, students created illustrations, identity systems, logo and mark, color studies, type and hierarchy studies, products, services, print collateral, and advertisments.
Fall 06
Workshop Instructor
Academy of Art San Francisco — Flash Workshop
Various topics in Flash programming. In this weekly workshop students brought projects and questions from their major courses. This laboratory workshop encouraged knowledge sharing among the students, and provided crucial technical skills/information for students in the MFA Art Directors program.
Spring 06
Teaching Assistant to Elise Baldwin
Mills College — Advanced Electronic Arts
Provided technical and conceptual guidance to graduate and undergraduate students in this advanced electronic arts class. Led software demonstrations, held 5 — 10 hours per week of lab time, managed and maintained the electronics shop, managed the electronic equipment check-out, attended and participated in all class critiques and presentations.
Fall 05
Teaching Assistant to Kevin Leeper
Mills College — Constructing the Technological Other
Provided technical and conceptual guidance to students in a combined graduate and undergraduate electronic arts class. This class had an individual project focus. Problem solving with a variety of materials and technology, planning and design skills, and time management were strong themes.
Spring 05
Teaching Assistant to Laura Splan
Mills College — Electronic Arts 1
Provided technical and conceptual guidance to art students in a beginning level electronic arts class.
Fall 04
Teaching Assistant to Anna Valentina Murch
Mills College — 3D Concepts
Provided technical and conceptual guidance to art students in a beginning sculpture class.
6/01–4/04
Software Tutor
Multimedia/Experience Designer
Stone Yamashita Partners
CEO and senior executive-level brand and business strategy consulting. Led software workshops and devoted time to one-on-one software training for everyone in the design studio. Worked with strategists, writers and designers to create immersive environments, print collateral, video, presentations, educational and interactive media while helping them learn the tools to create with.
Fall 99
Student Teaching Assistant to Cece Iandoli
SFSU — Industrial Visuals
Led and presented all lab demonstrations of Macromedia Flash. The class worked predominantly in Macromedia Flash, and used support software to produce multimedia assets.