statement

Through drawing, I compile separate moments of time and thought in layers that accumulate to become a portrait of a complex individual whose body is expressing their interior self through minute subtleties of posture, gesture, and facial expression.

My models are sometimes professionals, often friends, and occasionally even strangers.  They pose for me in my studio, where they may feel foreign and uncomfortable, or in their own home, where they are intimately enfolded by their familiar surroundings.  The model's ease or unease in this situation, as well as their independent thoughts and feelings, are expressed through their body language in either fleeting or gradual changes.  These subtle nonverbal clues are what I search for as I work.  Perhaps a fleeting interruption in the rise and fall of breath, or the disappearance of a bone that was once pressing against the skin. I record these shifts, instabilities, and movements over time by intuitively varying the clarity of the image and refinement of my mark.

I believe that reality is fundamentally immeasurable: the model lives and changes, and should not be frozen in time, and I, the artist, approach each individual with fluctuating perceptions.  Therefore I depict my subjects as economically as possible, leaving ambiguities in edges and areas that are underdeveloped to suggest the slight movements and gestures which typify each individual.   

bio

born: 1973, Rochester, New York

education

University of Cincinnati, MFA 2005
Columbus College of Art & Design, BFA 1996

selected awards/honors

First Place, Elmhurst Art Museum, 2011
Second Place, Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery, 2011
First Place Drawing Category, Art Renewal Center, 2005

selected publications

Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Realism Biennial. Fort Wayne, IN: p.14, 2010
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young; The Diane & Sandy Besser Collection.  San Francisco, CA: p. 91, 2007
Mobile Museum of Art; Creative Imaginings, The Tullman Collection.  Mobile, AL:  p.17, 2006
Arnot art Museum; Re-Presenting Representation VII.  Elmira, NY: Kirkwood Printing p. 51, 2005

selected solo or two-person exhibits

University of Mississippi, Gallery 130: Fluctuating Perceptions, University, MS 2010
Keny Galleries: Recent Figural Drawings & Lithographs, Columbus, OH 2007
Gallery V:  Realism Plus, Columbus, Ohio 2005
Philip M. Meyers, Jr. Memorial Gallery:  Immeasurable Realities, Cincinnati, OH 2005

selected group shows

Springfield Museum of Art:  Fine Lines, Springfield, OH 2012
Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery:  The Figure Now, St. Louis, MO 2011
Green Hill Center for Art:  Drawing Revisited, Greensboro, NC 2010
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts:  Drawing No Conclusions, Grand Rapids, MI 2006