Artist Statement:
I work primarily with painting, collage, and sculpture. Playing with ideas of visual perception, I use my work to explore the break, boundary, and otherwise coexistence between imagery & the abstract, the reality of consciousness & conscious beings, and the universe at large. I'm interested in self-created manifestations of personal montage, as my relationship with each piece is very intimate; they are each like a close friend to me. My studio practice making two and three dimensional works employs a lot of assemblage and collage, building the literal objects and the conceptual narratives for each piece. There is much emphasis on recycling and using found materials, playing promiscuous artist in relation to medium and the fluidity from one to another. In the end, the works aim to be rich in their visual detail and their complexity of ideas, while still appealing to a whimsical nature, and remaining attentive to both the macro and the micro. I attended the School of Visual Arts, BFA Visual & Critical Studies, and Parsons, The New School for Design. Commissioned works are available upon request.
Education:
BFA in Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts - New York, New York
Rome Program, School of Visual Arts - Rome, Italy
Parsons, The New School - New York, New York
Professional/Teaching Experience:
Good Neighbr artist collective, director and founder
Private Tutoring, New York, New York and Buffalo, New York
Mural, Jersey City Public Schools, Jersey City, NJ
Mural, Our Wicked Lady, Brooklyn, New York
Mural, Saigon Bangkok, Amherst, New York
Exhibitions:
Out With A Bang, Buffalo, New York
Legacy, Brooklyn, New York
Defining The Orgy, Brooklyn, New York
Via Roaming, Rome, Italy
Tiny Biennale, Rome, Italy
Transposition, Buffalo, New York
Thank Heaven For Boys And Girls, New York, New York
SVA Open Studios, New York, New York
Vagabondage, Savannah, Georgia
Artistic Influences:
selected influences, in no particular order:
(some periods/styles)
Baroque, German Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Impressionism
(some ideas)
Foucault, Leibnitz, Plato, Freud, Sergi Eisenstein
(some artists)
Adrian Ghenie
Amy Sillman
Ali Banisadr
Robert Rauschenberg
Clyfford Still
Tapies Antoni
Helen Frankenthaler
Willem DeKooning
Egon Schiele
Dagobert Peche
Salvador Dali
Konstantin Bogavesky
Mikhail Larionov
Cy Twombly
Chaim Soutine
George Stefanescu
Fernand Leger
Le Corbusier
Lucian Freud
Alberto Burri
Leon Zack
Erik Parker
Piero Manzoni
Francis Bacon
Giorgio de Chirico
Marcel Duchamp
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Vasily Kandinsky
Francis Picabia
Zdislav Beksinski
Graham Sutherland
Martin Barre
Amedeo Modigliani
Paul Nash
William Orpen
Arshile Gorky
Christo & Jeanne Claude
Jenna Gribbon
Edouard Vuillard
Ron Mueck
Francisco Goya
Hieronymus Bosch
Frantisek Kupka
Remedios Varo
JMW Turner
Pavel Filonov
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Bill Traylor
Pierre Bonnard
Pat Passlof
Cecily Brown
Kevin Beasley
Gustav Klimt
Raphael Kirchner
Artist Tags:
abstract, painting, collage, mixed media, sculpture, new york
