Brief Artist Statement
Artist Statement 2026
My work begins with fragments—images, histories, gestures, and cultural symbols that already carry weight—and rearranges them into new visual relationships. Working primarily in painting and drawing, I edit and recombine studio photography, found imagery, art historical references, text, and pop ephemera into layered compositions that question hierarchy and reshape inherited narratives. My recent work follows some tropes of both Modernism and painting in its grand scale. But that contrasts sharply with my subject matter, color palettes and my most recent pieces also push the wall mounted art object beyond the flat rectangle.
Each work begins as accumulation—visual fragments gathered from contemporary culture and templates of art history—then moves through processes of translation, iteration, and transformation. Figures are repositioned, symbols are reframed, and familiar visual languages are set into tension. Careful passages of paint coexist with raw, gestural mark-making, producing tension between control and urgency, refinement and disruption. Through this recomposition, I aim to make visible both conflict and mutual support within shared social space.
My work engages social and political realities not through reporting “how it is”, but through structural editing: shifting attention, reorganizing power within the image, and creating questions about relationships of the assembled forms. Each diptych becomes an extension of this process, guiding movement and legibility so that viewers encounter layered narratives over time.
Artist CV
Solo Shows:
2015 “Small Works Show” at SIP Bar Brooklyn, NY
2012 “oneMAN Show” Rush Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NY
Selected Group Shows, Activations, Publications and Commissions:
2025 “Bloodsuckers” Tom Kaine Theater, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2025 “Kaiju” Tom Kaine Theater, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2025 “We Love Brooklyn” Tom Kaine Theater, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2024 “Sunset Park Open Studios” and Art Sale, Machine Works Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2024 “Art of the Living Dead” Tom Kaine Theater, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2024 “NYC Design Festival” and Open Studios at Industry City, Brooklyn, NY
2022-24 Residency and a Featured Artist - Porsche of Brooklyn, Industry City, Brooklyn
2024 “Drawing as a Tool for Mental Health” Wellness Lecture series at ROKT Mortgage, Midtown Manhattan, NYC
2023 “Secret Wars” Pop Portrait Commission, New York, NY 2023 “Sunset Park Open Studios” and Art Sale, Machine Works Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2023 “Figures and Faces” Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2022 “Grand Opening Taste of Brooklyn” - Live Painting and a Featured Artist - Porsche of Brooklyn, Industry City, Brooklyn
2022 “Kandy Kulture” Core Art Space Gallery, Lakewood, Colorado
2022 “Political Storm” Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, California• 2022 “Hanuman Mural” Commission for Uptown Movement, Inwood, NY
2022 Remote Artist Talk/ Studio Visit with VA “At Risk Youth” Hosted by The Arts Center in Orange, Orange, VA
2022 “Smalls Holiday Show” Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2020-21 “Physical Culture” Instagram Live Interview Series, The Internet
2020 “Journeyman” Symbolist Portrait Commission, New York, NY
2019 “Smalls Holiday Show” Cedar Street Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2019 “Summer Show” White Room Gallery, Long Island, NY
2019 “Comic Influenced’ Gestalt Projects Gallery, Santa Cruz , CA
2019 “Human Triage” Painting Published in Alluvian Magazine, Spring Issue
2019 “Sickness and Health” ABC No Rio at the at Bullet Space, NY
2018 “Pop Up Show” MAD Gallery, Chelsea NY
2018 “BAF Artists’ Group Show” Brooklyn Artist Fellowship Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 “Cartoons and Cereal” Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Live Painting Performance at Crossfit South Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Perceptual Shift” Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Can You See NYC” Image Gallery Brooklyn, NY
2015 “Respond” Smack Mellon Gallery Brooklyn, NY
2014 “The Show” Crossfit South Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “Surveillapacolypse” Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “Epilogue NYC” Auction/ Fund Raiser Performance Live Painting Mustang Sally’s, New York, NY
2014 “Freedom” Mural Commission Holbrook Long Island, NY
2013 “Rezist” Mural Commission Bronx Event Space NY
2013 “Sixty: The Collective” Rebar Brooklyn, NY
Education:
MFA University of Colorado, Boulder
Emphasis: Painting and Drawing
Teaching Experience: Beginning Drawing 3 Semesters / Beginning Painting 3 Semesters
BFA University of Arizona
Dual Emphasis: Painting and Drawing / Graphic Design and Illustration
Minors: Architecture / African American Studies
Teaching Experience: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Beginning Drawing for Architects