Born in Ohio in 1931. After studying psychology at the University of Cincinnati, he studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He was painting in the style of Abstract Expressionism, influenced by de Kooning. In 1959 he began experimenting with small, abstract collages and in 1960 changed to painting objects and landscapes. He had his first one-man exhibition at the Tanager Gallery, New York, in 1961. In 1962 he participated in the exhibition "The Figure" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1963 he was part of the Pop Goes the East show in Houston and in 1965 the Young America exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York.

His work started with brash collages, assemblages and environments, using commonplace commodity articles and was modelled on advertising catalogues, usually combined with the exhibitionist pose of a female body. In the course of his work on the series, Great American Nudes he enlarged the format of his canvasses.

Recently he has started to use metal to produce colourful and stunning large-scale three-dimensional wall reliefs.