statement

Engaging with the traditions of folklore and allegorical narrative, my work reimagines personal experience as myth.  Using mythological and iconic imagery to depict real life issues establishes a protected space in which to examine the emotional content of each experience.

Symbolic cut-paper imagery alludes to, without entirely revealing, the complex realities explored in each hyperrealist portrait.   Innumerable layers of delicately cross-hatched color give a solid presence to each portrait, while boldly graphic and precise paper cuts form a fragile landscape of paper and shadows.  Like remembered experiences, each component is both elusive and concrete.  

bio

born: 1981, Long Island, New York

education

New York Academy of Art, MFA, 2011
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, 2003

selected awards/honors

Juror's Mention Award, 27th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, 2014
Artist-in-Residence, Eden Rock Gallery, 2012
Jack Richeson Award for Excellence in Painting, New York Academy of Art, 2011
Branden C. Wallace & Andrew T. Mueller Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, 2011

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Eden Rock Gallery: The Delicacy of Memory - Studies on Paper, St. Barths, F.W.I., 2012

selected group shows

Lyons Wier Gallery: Voyeur, New York, NY, 2014
McNeese State University: 27th Annual McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition, Lake Charles, LA, 2014
Mark Miller Gallery: The New Romantics, New York, NY, 2014
Dacia Gallery: 3 Year Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY, 2013