Old, semi-abandoned WMCA radio station in the Meadowlands, between Kearney and Jersey City. During the late 50s and early 60s, WMCA was the rock & roll music station to listen to, playing mainly doo-wop on your transistor radio, way down at the lower end of the dial, around 540 AM.

Radio Station acrylic on canvas 20″ X 16″

A view of an iconic neighborhood near Delmonico’s famous restaurant with the remaining cluster of colonial Dutch buildings imbedded within New York City skyscrapers.
Acrylic on canvas 16″ X 20″

Pencil on paper inspired by taxidermy exhibition at Morbid Anatomy

Detailed drawing suggesting certain aspects of life in the era of Manhattan’s tenement-dwelling immigrant population in the early 20th Century

Pencil on paper 14″ X 17″

2016 Acrylic on Board 13.5″ X 28.5″

36″ X 24″ Acrylic on Canvas
Features the artist, Federico Castelluccio (on ladder); his assistant (me, Doktor John) standing back by Myke Hideous behind Cemetery & Western singer-songwriter Mark Sinnis. Miz Margo in foreground, left; Madame X and Marzena in doorway, right, just behind staggering singer-songwriter and photo-journalist Mark Steiner.

Transcendent pre-dawn image from 3rd floor window in Totowa

Acrylic on 22″ X 28″ board

Doktor’s Bag

Acrylic on Canvas
Done while working in the in Madison NJ studio of Arie Galles, professor at Fairleigh Dickinson, in 1977

Here, Marlon Brando plays the character “Stanley Kowalski” from the Tennessee Williams play. The original acrylic on canvas painting was sold to the Rafael and Dorothy Venezia Family in 1996. This image for this website was made from a 16″ X 20″ color print. The original was undertaken as a tribute to the great writer and cultural commentator Professor Camille Paglia, herself a great admirer of Brando. The inspiration was a book review she wrote of a biography of Marlon Brando by a TIME Magazine movie critic. She panned the book, but expressed her praise of Brando as an actor and cultural icon. Actually, I tried to make this print a gift for Dr. Paglia whom I met at a book-signing, but she declined to take anything from me on grounds that she was traveling light.

The tattoo shown below was completely made up to honor Dr. Paglia, and is not part of either Marlon Brando’s or Stanley Kowalski’s personal appearance.