My paintings are pictures from liminal everyday spaces painted usually with oil on canvas or panel. These images - a stray hubcap, a chain link fence, and grass growing on a median - are typical and even banal, but in them I find immense depth, presence and beauty. I enjoy the immediacy and quickness of paint, often letting the paint be itself rather than worrying too much about representation. I am interested in not only what objects are in my paintings but what they can become. I focus on presence in my work and what it means to present in a world susceptible to collapse due to climate catastrophe and economic disaster.
About the Artist
Born and raised in Tulsa, OK. Attended MICA for a BFA and Towson University for a MFA. Currently works and resides in the neighborhood of Waverly in Baltimore, MD.Featured Work
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Featured Work: Photos
view from my studio
oil on panel
2022
median
oil on panel
2022
listening to nothing while driving
oil on canvas
2022
seeing the sun through the clouds on the love below
oil on canvas
2022
carved tree
oil on canvas
2021
view of my toilet
oil on panel
2022