It is possible to lift the veil that familiarity and routine impose upon our everyday surroundings. The common objects of daily life can then be viewed in a new light. Still lifes allow us to see our world in the light of metaphor. In my images situations are developed which suggest contemplation upon some of the ever-present themes and questions of humanity: what it is to be, how we reconcile our internal and external existence, the nature of understanding, how perception shapes reality.

The artist's hand acts as a filter of reality and delivers these created images through the marriage of intense looking, focused thought, and labor. The detail and subtle nuances, the heightened contrast, the careful construction, all of these decisions point towards the possibility of revelation. The art objects become the silent artifacts. They record the existence of this alternate reality and become the bridge between our world and the world of possibility.

 

born: 1981, Cleveland, OH

education

Columbus College of Art & Design, BFA

selected awards/honors

Assistant Instructor award for Printmaking, full tuition remission and stipend, Indiana University, 2005-2006
Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University, 2005
Graduate Assistantship for Printmaking, full tuition remission and stipend, Indiana University, 2004-2005
Full tuition scholarship, Columbus College of Art & Design, 1999-2003

selected solo or two-person exhibits

The Nature of Becoming, Solo Exhibit, The Worthington Community Center, Columbus, OH 2005
Life Observed, Two-Person Exhibit with Anne Holman, The Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2005
Between the Shadow and the Light, Solo Exhibit, Re-Art Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2003
Senior Thesis Exhibition, Solo Exhibit, CCAD Kinney Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2003

selected group shows

19th National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Communication Arts Gallery,
       Kenosha, WI, 2006
Powerful Impressions: Italian and American Printmaking, Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, 2005;
       la Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, Italy, 2006
Editions through Pixel and Print, Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Columbus, OH, 2005
Small Works, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH 2003