Born 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Education
2007 MFA New York Studio School, New York, USA
2003 BFA University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA
Presentation
The artist about his art:
"I started off as an artist making drawings from visions that appeared in my head. I didn't know what they meant, but they seemed necessary. In college I discovered Art History. I studied paintings and learned different ways to interpret them. Painting and drawing from life became a new love of mine and it began a journey that brought me back in time. Old masters fascinated me. I spent a long time in the past, but become less dependent of it. My inner visions persistently yearned to be expressed and brought me to the moment. I began to draw from my inner world again, but this time with a consciousness of the past.
I enjoy walking through my mind as if it were a forest. I pick out here and there something of interest that I feel like expressing and exploring more deeply through the act of drawing. I am not trying to find anything in particular, other than my own bliss. The drawings from my imagination express my thoughts and feelings about relationships between humor and solemnity. The imagery comes from narrative and personal fantasy.
My drawings are a paradoxical quest for truth and cannot be confronted without humor. Aside from drawing from my imagination, I continue to be captivated with the visual world that exists outside of me. There is something mesmerizing about the appearance of things, the way appearances change and influence me. Drawing the world around me stimulates the world within me. Through drawings I attempt to capture a fragment of the vastness I feel before a motif, exploring the perplexing dichotomy between the infinite and the finite."
