Everything can be stripped and left naked and barren. Our world needs to do this in order to keep from capsizing. My art is an observation of the collision of nature and humanity. It is an expression of the direction I want our world to face, living more harmoniously with our surroundings. I work with an inward idealism for mankind to change its way of thinking, created in its most simplist form: shape and texture: two aspects that I find so revealing.

My work is in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, and has been featured with such esteemed institutions as Pew Charitable Trusts, The National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education, and The University of The Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I was born in 1970 in San Bernardino, California and graduated from the University of The Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1994. Much of my youth was spent in Blue Hill. I know the roads that have no names like the back of my hand. I could not tell you routes but could find anything by sight. Maine formed much of my appreciation for nature: the sun, tree bark, rocks, cliffs, rust, peeling boat paint, barnacles and the sea. These are the things that have directly influenced my way of painting.

My figurative work is a mix of oils, collage and even digital media. My abstract work is mixed media, many times using oils, encaustics and even monotypes to develop richly colorful and textural surfaces.

2007

Solo Show, Leighton Gallery

2006
Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine

2005
Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

2004
Rosenfeld Gallery, “Small Works December” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Artebella, LLC , New Orleans, Louisiana
The University of the Arts Aaronson Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2003
“Heaven & Hell“, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ICON 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2002
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania