A native ( born in 1947) of Washington D.C., MLJ grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He is an artist, exhibition coordinator, educator, and an art consultant. He states that " Art, being a universal language, is used as a form of visual communication, morphing words into images, pictograms of life's phenomenon. With a very direct, minimal design, my art demands the viewers response; which is more personal than just looking at a painting".

Traveling to Madrid, Spain inspired my brand" Yo People", animated images with emphatic emotional communication. Yo People set the mood to one's sense of humor far beyond the context of caricatures or cartoons. what appears to be funny/comical gives rise to satire. What might ordinary be viewed as commonplace turns out to be ironic. The just of puns and the pranks of human behavioral confrontations are all enacted through the dramatization of everyday occurrences, set into compositions, starring " Yo People": expressive, animated forms with exaggerated gestures of body posture, language and meaning.

Listed in the " Who's who of American Artist", as well as the " Who's who of African Americans", as an artist and Educator. I have exhibited extensively in the United States, London(UK), Spain, Puerto Rico, South Africa and the African Diaspora.