statement

Stimulated by the traditions of representational drawing, my works are indelibly linked to their subjects. Achieving accuracy and likeness, however, are not the reasons I set out to make a drawing, they are simply conditions of its being.  It is the technical narrative, the physical index of the drawer's accumulated decisions, that drives the importance of drawing as an art.

Often developed from unexpected visual encounters that fascinate and tug at me, my work begins as a glance that leads to sustained observation and enduring, meaningful experiences.  As a drawing begins to grow, the surface gains a history and begins to hold a measured pictorial intensity commensurate to those very impulses that set the whole process in motion.

bio

born: 1976, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

education

MHoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA, 2003
Syracuse University, BFA, 1998
Syracuse University, Florence Center, Italy, 1997

selected awards/honors

Juror's Choice Award, 4th Annual Drawing Discourse, UNC Asheville, 2013
Artist Opportunity Grant, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2012 & 1999
First Prize, The Figure Now, Fontbonne University, 2011

selected publications

University of North Carolina Asheville, 4th Annual Drawing Discourse. Cover, 2013
Manifest Gallery, 3rd International Painting Annual. Cincinnati, OH, 2013
Manifest Gallery, 7th International Drawing Annual. Cincinnati, OH, 2013
Manifest Gallery, The Nude. Cincinnati, OH, 2012

selected group shows

University of North Carolina Asheville, 4th Annual Drawing Discourse, 2013
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 30:2 Invitational, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013
Fontbonne University: The Figure Now, St. Louis, MO, 2013
Butler Institute of American Art, National Mid-Year Show, Youngstown, OH, 2012