Originally from Los Angeles, he developed a life-long interest in the Planetarium, which he expresses in his conceptual paintings that includes telescopic landscape vistas and large arrangements of tiny portraits. He is especially fascinated by virtual nothingness, that which appears vast and endlessly deep or that which is perceived but not obviously visible. Some of his paintings are created from aerial photographs and have been the subject of a series called "Surveillance."

In the mid 1970s, he was painting rooms filled with technological equipment such as video cameras, receivers, and tape recorders, as well as landscapes with abstract figures and technology. But his landscape panoramas without figures brought him his primary att...