I am a craftsman, fine artist, instructor, and father with an affinity for the poetic and the minute.
My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. I received my Master’s of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University and my Bachelor’s of Fine arts from Eastern Michigan University. I now live, work, and teach in the greater Ann Arbor area.
My work is cathartic, a simple reaction to life and my understanding of it. Impoverished, young, underprivileged, I was brought up learning some of life’s toughest lessons quickly and intimately.
My artwork and writings are a combination of my negotiations with life, morality, anxiety, depression, and a fascination with the emotive power of the human figure and its surrounding environment. My compositions contain crumbs of the everyday, of familial interactions, solitary walks in nature, of peace within circumstance. They utilise familiar motifs present within romantic painting and literature to create a dialogue with viewers that feels familiar and safe, but all the more unsettling and uncanny. My work seeks to show similarly, the beautiful and the tragic, while the precise and meditative nature of my practice allows me to tease out my own understanding of a given circumstance or form, before engaging with the viewer and having the dialogue anew.