Adjunct faculty, Painting, received an Associates Degree in Art from Nassau Community College, a BFA fromCornell University and anMFA in painting fromYale University where he had a scholarship to study withWilliam Bailey and Bernard Chaet. He has taught at Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Nassau Community College and Suffolk Community College, and currently teaches painting, drawing and art history at the State University of New York at Farmingdale. He conducts frequent art lectures throughout the New York area, has traveled extensively throughout Europe and teaches an annual class in Renaissance art history that toursmajor centers including Florence andVenice. His work is held in numerous public and private collections including Arthur Andersen InternationalHeadquarters, St. Paul, Illinois, Brown and Forman, Louisville, Kentucky, American Postal Workers Union inWashington,DC, and the GeorgeMeany Center, Silver Springs, Maryland, and he has exhibited across the US and abroad,most recently holding a solo show at George Billis Gallery, NewYork.