statement

I create large-scale self-portrait drawings using pencil on paper. These drawings are meticulously-rendered, elaborately staged and illustrative works that use dramatic and expressive poses as well as visceral symbolism as a conduit for both personal and universal narratives.

I walk the line between the reality and the artifice of the self-portrait. I do not view self-portraits as mere illustrated recreations of the self; I frequently use my self image as though I were an actor under the affectation of a role. Sometimes I am a stand-in (for the collective of civilization and a participant in the transgressions of humanity), sometimes I am simply playing myself and these works are detachedly recording minute personal stories as though from a journal.

bio

born: Athens, Georgia

education

University of Georgia, MFA, 1994
University of Georgia, BFA, 1991

selected awards/honors

Artist Fellowship for Works on Paper, New Jersey State Council of the Arts, 2006
Grant in Support of Working Artists, George Sugarman Foundation, 2007

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Stockton College Art Gallery: Graphite Drawings, Pomona,NJ, 2009
Azarian-McCullough Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College: Recent Drawings, Sparkill, NY, 2006
The Westport Art Center: Gallery Solos, Westport, CT, 2005
The Pierro Gallery: Visions and Narratives, South Orange, NJ, 2003

selected group shows

Last Rites Gallery: Taboo: A bienArt Surrealist Art Collective Exhibit , New York, NY 2012
Principle Gallery: From What I Remember/From What I Forget, Alexandria, VA 2012
Noyes Museum of Art: Alice: Into the Looking Glass, Oceanville, NJ, 2012
Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory: Fears and Phobias, Alexandria, VA 2012