Howard Kaplan has a BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design, a Master of Education and a Doctor of Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF) Tampa. His unique skillset has helped him create the Advanced Visualization Center at the USF, which serves as a campus wide resource for implementing and developing instruction, research and products using advanced technologies, such as augmented and virtual reality, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and interactive media. He was laso a professor for the College of Art, at USF. He currently resides in Tampa, Florida.

Howard's series, Broken Triangles, are abstract expressionist works, featuring Paintings, and 3D Animations. The work represents the fleeting concept of history. In this series he observes the fading history of the human story, at various levels from personal to general histories. With each piece, Howard, invites the viewer to immerse themselves in the subject as translated through cycles and iterations of histories created, told, remembered, forgotten and recreated. With the merging of traditional art and digital technologies, he, focuses on the impacts to underrepresented groups: persons with disability, LGBT+, and African Americans. A key emphasis of the artwork is to communicate the psychological and mental distress that are still present as a result of historic tragedies. Howard views Broken Triangles as a book containing many chapters and subsections that are connected and continuously growing along with the main theme, this allows for individual pieces to remain separate and distinct, as work expands organically to form a unified collection.

Each piece asking the viewer:

How do we remember the past, as history carries on and builds up new histories, especially in a world filled with over stimulation and massive amounts of information?

"The Smell" 2019	"The Sound" 2019	"Waiting" 2019
"The Sight" 2020	"Trigger Models no.1" 2022	"Blind to It" 2020	"Kid Triangle" 2020
"Sanctification" 2019	"Light in the Clouds" 2019	"Not A Rabbit" 2019
"Mind My Emotions" 2019	"Whats Ours Is Mine" 2019