These paintings are hanging at Rockmill Tavern in the Brewery District in Columbus, Ohio. Created April 2020.

This work comes from a place of navigating a new realm of process. We all have been affected by this worldwide pandemic in one way or another, and my personal questions and inquiries came through this new work. While it’s contained, there is still no boundary. What defines? What will define and how does it happen? There’s a clear sense of human touch, the trace of my hand, a part of our bodies that is now regulated to be sanitized, gloved in latex, and not to come near our faces. What does touch mean now? It has become a lot more important, a lot more pondered on, a connection that people are missing. Can you connect with me by seeing the movements my hand made on these papers? We are forced to redefine new ways of connecting with each other - both physically and emotionally. This work contemplates what connection means, an idea of how to achieve it, and has served as a visual journal for my own new avenues for connection. What does this new mode of connection look like? And how do you navigate figuring that out? I hope this work sparks conversation about what this means to each of us.

With the impacts of Covid-19, I was not able to completely install my thesis project. Included in this page are renderings that act as my graphic response to not being able to fully realize this project (yet). It’s made up of a mixture of 2d visualization and 3d process photographs. Stay hopeful, friends.

I participated in the 5th Annual Painting Residency in Tao Hua Tan, China. This was a 3 week residency in a very small, remote town about 6 hours West of Shanghai. I focused on completing 6 oil paintings for the Hefei Museum of Art. All 6 paintings stayed in China.

This work comes from the purest form of material exploration. It's both a question and an answer. It transforms and responds with the viewers experience. It guides you through the space, takes you on a journey.

I was invited to create an installation in the garage of a community of artists.

Various proofs during color experimentation from a series called Wired. Spring 2019.

These paintings are the result of my first semester in a Master’s program. I struggled a lot in finding a unique “style” of painting, but everything I tried always involved water. These are my abstract interpretations of songs, feelings and passions that I experienced through the last few chaotic months of 2018.

This installation stemmed from the idea of storage and how to efficiently store paintings to take up the least amount of space possible. I find myself faced with this conflict a lot. I’ve been making paintings that are around 3’ minimum on each side. My solution became a temporary version of this installation in my studio.

This work also questions the idea of the frame and its deconstruction.

This painting was commissioned by a local architecture firm, GreenbergFarrow. They were renovating this space before they moved into it and wanted a custom piece to match the colors they had already picked out. The idea behind the dripping was to create an ethereal environment when close up, but ultimately become a statement from far away. The density anchors the eye while the lighter areas allow it to wander freely through the winding layers.

8’x8’

Acrylic Paint and Water on Canvas

In an effort to understand the relationship between human and object, I began forming earthenware clay into complex undulating forms. Exploring a bodily response to a material was a way to familiarize myself with my own intuitive reactions and solutions.

These prints were done in the Fall and Spring of 2016 during my last year of undergraduate studies at Miami University of Ohio. They explore the idea of infusing technology into an old trade process. I wanted them to find that antiquated look but make you wonder what system were used. This work also explores early ideas of complexity and order.

all overlaying circle prints

A.E. Fillmore East

Spring, 2016

Woodcut Relief Print

11”x15”

Prints available upon request.

This work explores a dialogue about the places we’ve been, the places we’ve come from, and the places we chose to go. It opens up a conversation about the trails that define us, and the residue that stays with us when we return: the connections you made & found, the stability and support that you had, the things you thought about during the hard times and the ultimate spontaneity and passion that comes from leaving your comfort zone. My current work focuses of the relationship between the start and the finish, the transition and the flux. This piece, called Scarlet Sunshine, embraces the undulating transformation of the ever changing landscape and the psyche of being on the road.

These graphics are from my studio project while in my final semester of undergrad at Miami University of Ohio.

Independent Furniture Study with Mentor Ted Wong, Spring 2016

This page includes digital works, mostly through process, but nonetheless important. Inquire for price and size.

everything else

This is a piece about travel. What’s that saying about an arrow? is something I hear myself repeat while reflecting. As soon as these words cross my mind, a calmness follows, because I can feel the comfort of the saying without remembering the words. It’s about that exact feeling. About knowing that there is a piece of literature on the tip of your tongue that can cure the ailments of anxiety that you are feeling at that exact moment. You just have to recognize it. This is about knowing you’ll be okay, no matter how shakey the ground.