2021-present
6 a.m. mood swing meltdowns triggered by desires for a cup that possess the exact features of another except for color, syrup-sticky hands from forkless scarfed waffles dragged across all reachable surfaces, and mid-modern styled forts built of Amazon Prime carboard boxes to thwart off the invisible monsters that lurk in closets are my reality engineered by my relentlessly energetic children. Mini-adventures like these, while expected in the asteroid-to-the-earth-like transformation that parenting imposes on a person, have over time presented me with a new lens to explore and form a deeper understanding to my life as a socially adjusted, mostly responsible adult in a time when the challenges of raising children that are thoughtful, unique individuals seem to be at an all-time high.
In this collection of color pencil drawings, the care-free naïve exploits of my children are documented through candy-colored saturated geometric forms and abstracted figuration that pulsate across the surface like repeated shouts for attention, “Watch this! Watch this!”. While providing space for my images to form their own identities, the voice of age seeks to corral them, to provide structure for their youthful enthusiasm and to understand boundaries that are created by grid-infused patterning and hard-edged precision. The give and take between embracing youthful impulses and preparation for an adulthood that is ever more demanding is presented as if projected through the streaming-service du jour of vibrating LED light, asking the viewer to consider the evolved dynamics of their personality over a lifetime, the child and the adult.
color pencil on paper, 12x18”
chalk pastel on paper, 15x20”
color pencil on paper, 13x15”
color pencil on paper, 20x14.5”
color pencil on paper, 15x22”
graphite on paper, 11x7”
color pencil on paper, 19x14.5”
color pencil on paper
18x12”, 2022
color pencil on paper, 19x15.5”
color pencil on paper, 15x15”
color pencil on paper, 18.5x15”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
chalk pastel on paper, 22x15”
color pencil on paper, 18x24”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
Color pencil on paper, 12x18”
graphite on paper
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”, 2022
color pencil on paper, 13x11”
color pencil on paper, 12x18”
color pencil on paper, 12x18”
color pencil on paper, 13x11”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
color pencil on paper, 13x11”
color pencil on paper, 13x11”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
color pencil on paper, 13x11”
color pencil on paper, 12x18”
color pencil on paper, 12x18”
color pencil on paper, 13x11”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 13x10”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil and graphite on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 30x22”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x17”
color pencil and graphite on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 18x12”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
color pencil on paper, 11x8”
graphite on paper, 7.5x10”
A collection of process drawings made during the passage from 2019 to 2020.
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite and color pencil on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite and color pencil on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite and color pencil on paper
11x9”, 2019
graphite and color pencil on paper
11x9”, 2019
2017-2019
Artist Statement
The elusive refuge of ambiguity, its privileges of questions and obscurities, is central to my life and in turn, the images that I make. To exist is to be governed by dualities; I live within the confines of a two-sided reality, something is or is not. But there is a seductive tension in the alternative, in straddling a boundary, crossing back and forth, a desire for nothing to ever truly have an answer or end. This is my respite. Fleeing from the controlled simplification of assurances to the wickedly tempting uncertainties of ambiguity is an act of greed. I am greedy. Curiosity made me this way.
Demanded by untold necessity I drift into daydreams, continuously returning to quasi-realities of secluded interactions with the natural world. Each time I am lead by invisible force (or fate) to barriers that present themselves as warnings, yields between two states, facticity and possibility. One such vision is a buzzing summer field with no start that ends at a wall of tree and scrub, giving no hint as to what is beyond. “Don’t dare pass through” I’m whispered, “don’t dare wonder”. I desire what I am not privy to and fight the lure of comfort in what I am. I am often successful. My greed wills me to pursue, crossing the threshold to behold the mystery. But each time in a twisted act of conformity I find my imaginings are responded to with answers that seem obvious. My spirit is rendered level. While unsatisfied, I am fulfilled with the knowledge that this state functions as a loop, one that I will undoubtedly return to.
In working through images, stepping into them, pulling back, adding, and subtracting, I wrestle with achieving even the slightest resemblance of their origins. In truth, I most likely could never want them to. They end in fractures of place, somewhere not before, nor later, but also not now. They traverse a space that is much harder to define. Their ambiguous readings only offer me a chance to sit in the middle for a while longer, to linger with pleasure before spilling back over to a side of undesired settling.
gouache and acrylic on photographic print
30x22”, 2019
graphite and colored pencil on paper
10x8”, 2018
ink and spray paint on inlaid paper and paper
40x32", 2015
ink, graphite, gouache on paper
14x11", 2016
ink, gouache, graphite on paper
22x30", 2015
ink, gouache, graphite on paper
22x30", 2014
ink and graphite on paper
30x22, 2015.
ink, graphite, and gouache on paper
30x22", 2016
ink and graphite on paper
22x30, 2015
graphite, ink, colored pencil on paper
18 x 21.5", 2015
gouache, graphite, color pencil on paper
12.5 x 10.5", 2015
gouache and graphite on paper
7x9.5”, 2014
graphite, colored pencil, gouache
30x22”, 2018
acrylic and gouache on photographic image
19x14.5”, 2018
acrylic and gouache on photographic image
15x11”, 2018
graphite and colored pencil on paper
30x22”, 2018
acrylic and gouache on paper
24x20”, 2018
graphite and gouache on paper, 12x13”, 2018
gouache and graphite on paper
30x22", 2016
graphite and gouache on paper
13x11”, 2018
2015-2016
Gouache on paper and inlaid photographic print
9x7.5", 2015
inlaid holographic paper and acrylic paint on paper
22x30", 2014
inlaid holographic paper and ink on paper
7x10", 2014.
inlaid photographic prints
10x6", 2014
inlaid postcard, holographic paper, photographic print
12x9", 2014
ink on photographic print
10x12.5", 2014
ink on photographic image
9x10", 2014
inlaid postcards, holographic paper, photographic print
12x9", 2014
inlaid paper and photographic print
6x9", 2014
inlaid metallic fleck paper and photographic print
12x9", 2014
ink on photographic print
10x11", 2014
enamel and ink on paper, inlaid photographic print
11x10", 2014
inlaid holographic paper, photographic print, enamel on paper
11x10", 2014
ink on paper and inlaid metal fleck paper, paper
11x8", 2014
inlaid photographic prints
9x7", 2014
ink on photographic prints
10x15", 2014
inlaid photographic prints
6x9", 2014
inlaid metal fleck paper, postcards, photographic print
12x9", 2014
ink on photographic print
7.5x10", 2014
inlaid spray paint on paper and photographic print
8x10", 2014
inlaid holographic paper, paper, photographic print
12x9", 2014
inlaid photographic prints
12x9", 2014
inlaid postcard and photographic print
6x9", 2014
inlaid holographic paper and photographic prints
9x7", 2015
inlaid postcard, paper, photographic print
6x9", 2014
inlaid plastic and photographic prints
10x7", 2015
2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
50 pieces at 5x6", 32.5x65" total, 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
Inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6", 2014
2013-2014
Time pause.
I want a moment to last a lifetime. I want that moment to have its own life, changing and evolving over the course of its existence.
It is in moments that I can begin to understand my place in the world. I have found these moments in my natural surroundings, the neighboring forests, expansive fields, and quiet waterways that call me wherever I am.
Through a method of work that hybridizes aspects of drawing, painting, collage, and printmaking, echoes and reverberations of these moments are resurrected just as abstract as their origins. With a process of repetition and precision, the work allows for the contemplation of specific passages of time, their meaning and significance.
The final images pursue moments that I find most peace and reason in, the ability to
Pause Time.
Inlaid postcards, metallic paper, paper
14x12", 2013
Inlaid postcards, holographic paper, paper
15x15", 2013
Inlaid postcards, metallic paper, neon paper, paper
25x30", 2014
Inlaid postcard, holographic paper, paper
14x9", 2013
Inlaid postcards, metallic paper, paper
(size), 2014
Inlaid postcards, holographic paper, paper
14x9", 2013
Inlaid postcards, holographic paper, paper,
14x9", 2013
Inlaid postcards, metallic paper, paper
12x12", 2013
Inlaid postcard, metal fleck paper, metallic paper, paper
13x17", 2014
Inlaid postcards, metallic paper, paper
12x15", 2014
Inlaid postcards, holographic paper, paper
17x18.5", 2013
Inlaid postcards, holographic paper, paper
12x12", 2013
Inlaid postcards
7x3.5", 2013
Inlaid postcards
6.5x6.5", 2013
Inlaid postcards
6.5x6.5", 2013
Inlaid postcards
7x3.5", 2013
Inlaid postcards
6.5x3.5", 2013
Inlaid wall paper, metallic paper, metal fleck paper on painted on wood
sits on a 12x12" pedestal, 2014
Inlaid wall paper and holographic paper on painted on wood
sits on a 12x12" pedestal, 2014
Inlaid wall paper and holographic paper on painted on wood
sits on a 12x12" pedestal, 2014
Inlaid wall paper, holographic paper, metallic paper, neon paper on painted wood
sits on a 12x12" pedestal, 2014
2010-2013
Inlaid postcards and paper
25x17” 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
19x23", 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
5x7", 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
22x20", 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
10x13", 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
22x30", 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
9x14", 2013
inlaid postcards and paper
19x30", 2013
inlaid postcards and paper
9x14", 2013
inlaid postcards and paper
7x13", 2012
inlaid postcards and paper
14x8", 2012
Inlaid postcards and paper
11x9”, 2013
inlaid postcards
5.5x6”, 2013
inlaid postcards and paper
5.5x6”, 2012
Plug Projects
Kansas City, MO
2014, solo show
Plug Projects
Kansas City, MO
2014, solo show
Plug Projects
Kansas City, MO
2014, solo show
Plug Projects
Kansas City, MO
2014 solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
Gamut Gallery
Evansville, IN
2018, solo show
New Boone
Philadelphia, PA
2017, group show
New Boone
Philadelphia, PA
2017, group show
New Boone
Philadelphia, PA
2017, group show
An extension of my studio work, these pieces were executed during teaching demonstrations, open model sessions, and other opportunities to work from a live model
chalk pastel on paper, 30x22”
chalk pastel on paper, 24x18”
paper collage, 10x7”
charcoal on paper, 30x22”
charcoal and chalk pastel on paper, 30x22”
chalk pastel on paper, 24x18”
charcoal and chalk pastel on paper, 24x18”
oil bar, chalk pastel, ink, and graphite on paper, 24x18”
color pencil, ink, and graphite on paper, 18x24”
charcoal on paper, 30x22”
acrylic, marker, and ink on paper, 24x18”
collage paper and graphite on paper, 12x9”
charcoal on paper, 24x18”
charcoal on paper, 24x18”
india ink and charcoal on paper, 24x18”
charcoal on paper, 24x18”
chalk paster on paper, 30x22”
graphite on paper, 24x18”
charcoal on paper, 24x18”
graphite on paper, 24x18”
charcoal and oil pastel on paper, 24x18”
charcoal, graphite, and oil pastel on paper, 24x18”
graphite on paper, 24x18”
charcoal on paper, 24x18”
graphite on paper, 24x18”
