Artist Bio

Born in the Midwest, at a young age I began to copy cartoon characters from the newspaper, comic books and television. I also became enchanted with magic. By the age of ten I had combined my drawing and magician skills into an act I performed at birthday parties and on live local children’s television shows. 

I moved to New York City with my family where I applied and was accepted into the High School of Art & Design. There I was introduced to the idea that I could make artistic practice a life choice. I majored in Cartooning and Animation and received a Cartoonist’s Guild Award for my senior year animation short. Upon graduation I entered into the film program at New York University.

After studying at NYU for three years I moved to Los Angeles. I worked for a time at Hanna-Barbera Studios animating Saturday morning cartoons, coming full circle from the characters I copied as a child. I was spending more and more time painting and found I preferred the autonomous solitude and hands on art-making of studio practice. I returned to New York City to pursue painting.    

In that pursuit a wide range of artistic experience has informed my work. In addition to film and animation I worked at Milton Glaser’s studio. I apprenticed letterpress printing at Oliphant Press with Ron Gordon and created showroom graphics for Knoll. I have long been fascinated with ancient human expression and have traveled to and encountered stelae and cairns in the British Isles, stone carvings in Sweden and petroglyphs in the American southwest.  

Artists of influence would include Vermeer, Magritte, Dali, Matisse, Modigliani, Schiele, Cornell, Hesse, Rothko, Motherwell, The Brothers Quay, and the cinematographers of Film Noir.

I have been living and painting in New Mexico since 2004.