Paul was born in Chicago in 1961.

With an education in Bauhaus architecture and fine art, Paul has carved an interesting niche in the international art world: bridging the principals and emotions of painting with the logic and detail of architecture. Paul approaches painting as a balance of physical structure (wood, canvas, paper); visual structure (brush strokes, scrapes, tears); and color. The structure of color takes on it’s own life while contained on the paintings surface. Whether thin and spacial, or thick and elemental, the colors are not random, but developed to compliment the physical and the visual. With respectful regard to the Abstract Expressionists of the forties and fifties, Paul allows the painting process to remain the final subject.

The most recent additions to Paul’s work are graphite on paper drawings. Based upon drafting exercises from his years studying architecture a the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, his drawings depict abstraction in it’s purest form, geometry, yet still contain elements of expressionism in the line work and color. Though minimal in logic, the drawings contain richness in both line and positive/negative relationships.

Paul has lived and worked in Chicago and Berkeley, California, and has recently moved to the emerging art community of Paducah, Kentucky. Paul’s drawings are part of The Drawing Center archive in New York City, plus he is a gallery artist for HANG in San Francisco, Homey in Chicago, and Greene Contemporary in Sarasota, Florida. Paul has also exhibited extensively in Chicago and Europe. In December 2001, he was one of the painters representing the United States at the Third International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, where he won a fifth place medal for painting. In 2002, he again represented the United States while participating in the Paris Triennal. Paul is also a member of the Association D’Art International and Pintura Fresca, both in France.