The East Coast is new to me once again. After living in San Francisco for seventeen years, I moved back to the small town Shamokin, Pennsylvania where I grew up. I have been here since May 2008. My mom developed lymphoma and I am here to care for her. My mom is the person I have known the longest on the planet and my friend. At seventy nine years of age and being diagnosed with cancer, I would want someone to hold my hand through this, if it happened to me.

My visual design sense comes from my origins.  I dive into my root history, where it all began.  As an altar boy growing up in the small town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, I spent a lot of time in church.  The Ukrainian Greek Catholic church, with its bright Byzantium gold and high design line took on great meaning for me.  The intoxicating other worldliness fragranced with frankincense and myrrh drew me to line.  Line gives me a sense of movement, which metaphors the movement of life.  I get a sense of logic, my own logic.

The artwork I do is a synthesis of painting, installation, and sculpture. My art mainly consists of paintings on shaped canvases and sculptural components.  The work takes on the intent of spirituality.

Growing up in Pennsylvania, I was influenced  by Western Art. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, is where I received my Bachelor of Arts degree, in art studio.  This place is where I learned an Eastern Art sensibility.

I completed my Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art, in the "Arts and Consciousness" program at John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA.

So I have been blessed with two hemispheres in the approach to art; thus my web site address, wasilasart.com.  Art is something I am and not something I do. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, John Slade Eli House, New Haven, CT, Mexico City (USA art exchange), Mexico, Merchants Exchange Corporation, San Francisco, CA, and private collections in San Francisco, Santa Fe, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York City, are some places that house my work in their permanent art collections.

Through my life experience and formal trainings as an artist, I continue to develop a personal spiritual experience, from the most profound levels of human consciousness. This I find is the foundation for truly significant artwork. I believe in arts ability to transform, inspire and be fun.