About

For most his life, Paul has been involved in the arts. At a young age, his mother, a painter, taught him the basics of painting and encouraged his interest in the various mediums. During Paul's teenage years, he studied art in his hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey, as well as at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City.

He went on to study at Marymount College in Los Angeles, eventually earning a scholarship to study in London. In Europe, he continued to work at his craft and then headed to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts to study film. After graduation, he made many short films, videos, TV commercials, and documentaries for sports teams and other entertainment entities.

Although he enjoyed working in the film medium, Paul could not pull himself away from his love of the arts. He put together a body of work titled, Phoframture, which was composed of the mixed mediums of painting, photography, sculpture, and framing. These works were first shown at the Museum of the Urban Experience and the Xio Ping Design Showroom. This led to his first exhibit of paintings, which were inspired after he no longer had an art studio to work in (due to 9/11).

His studio became the streets of New York City. He fell in love with manhole covers, and for next two or three years, Paul went from one cover to the next. During this time, he was asked to exhibit his paintings in a show titled, Manhattan Manholes, in 2003, at Revolution in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. As Paul continued to pound the city's pavement, it inspired him to use not only manhole covers but also the various surfaces below our feet.

This led to the Tribeca Center for the Arts hosting a show of his paintings titled, City Surfaces, in 2005. At this point, Paul felt the need to escape the lines of the city, so he headed out to the west coast. There, he tapped into how the coastal landscapes made him feel. When he was done, his work consisted of a series of paintings for a show titled, Clouds Out West. These were exhibited at the Silver Whale Gallery in Greenwich Village in New York City in 2006.

Although Paul continues to paint the lines in and outside of the city, he also enjoys writing and helping children. He has spent a lot of his time in the last five years doing art with kids at Montefiore Children’s Hospital, writing 3 books and recovering from brain surgery. Today he prepares for his lasted show titled, Beneath our Feet, these paintings will be exhibited at Harlem Flo, NYC in March of 2012. He currently lives in Harlem and has an 11-year-old daughter.