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I began my career as a figurative sculptor—in marble, of all things—in the early ’70’s, when conceptual art was at its peak. Paula Cooper, of the eponymously named gallery, and a major proponent of conceptual art, came to my studio with an art collector in tow and sold him one of my nudes. After I’d produced more than a dozen pieces in marble, I wanted to work bigger, faster, so I began to create larger-than-life-sized figures in plaster and taught myself to cast in concrete. In 1986, I had my first exhibition—a solo show at the Sutton Gallery on East Fifty-Seventh Street. 

I live in the Catskill Mountain with Wanda, the rescue dog, who rescues me every day.