Professional Fine Artist
My artwork is an amalgamation of my multi faceted background. I adumbrate drawings like an architect, dapple color with a painter’s eye, capture compositions with the photographer’s quick lens, and weld forms together with a sculptor’s touch.
Metal has become the main tool to expressing my visual vocabulary. Metal is very seductive for a multitude of reasons. Its pure structural strength, its fragility to bend, its ability to capture time in its inherent chemistry, its reflective nature and its ease of joining via the lucid quality of a weld. I also use welding as a means of drawing lines upon metal.
The works follow three main trajectories. The first is an examination of nature of the built environment, the second is an expression of the ephemeral moments of life and the third is the continual study of the human figure.
When I speak of the built environment I focus on the physical world around us; the way that architectural lines delineates how we flow through space and time. The powerful presence, both clearly and latently, that structures have on our sense of being. Every place is different, every corner of the globe has its own vernacular, and its’ own set of architectural values that portray their existence. I challenge the viewers to open their eyes to not just the overt grandness of architecture, but the nominal moments that become metaphors for life.
My work is also a vehicle for looking deeper into the human condition. The challenge is how to express emotions and concepts when they are not physical forms. To take the non-tangible and turn it into something that exists visually in an abstracted fashion.
The figure is my platform for looking deeper into forms, lines, and the slight nuances of color that create the wonderment of the figure.
Upcoming Art Exhibition
2013
Living Art Center | The Lines of a Woman, Mixed Media; June 7st-28th, 2013 - Tulsa, OK.
Yeiser Art Center | Merit Award at the Paducah International Photography Exhibition, June 22- Aug 3rd, 2013 - Paducah, KY
Linus Gallery | Body Image On-LIne Juried Exhibition: Ongoing - Los Angles, CA.
Linus Gallery | Urban On-LIne Juried Exhibition: Ongoing - Los Angles, CA.
2014
Next Gallery | The Face of Religion, Mixed Media; Feb 7 -23rd, 2014 - Denver, CO
Metal has become the main tool to expressing my visual vocabulary. Metal is very seductive for a multitude of reasons. Its pure structural strength, its fragility to bend, its ability to capture time in its inherent chemistry, its reflective nature and its ease of joining via the lucid quality of a weld. I also use welding as a means of drawing lines upon metal.
The works follow three main trajectories. The first is an examination of nature of the built environment, the second is an expression of the ephemeral moments of life and the third is the continual study of the human figure.
When I speak of the built environment I focus on the physical world around us; the way that architectural lines delineates how we flow through space and time. The powerful presence, both clearly and latently, that structures have on our sense of being. Every place is different, every corner of the globe has its own vernacular, and its’ own set of architectural values that portray their existence. I challenge the viewers to open their eyes to not just the overt grandness of architecture, but the nominal moments that become metaphors for life.
My work is also a vehicle for looking deeper into the human condition. The challenge is how to express emotions and concepts when they are not physical forms. To take the non-tangible and turn it into something that exists visually in an abstracted fashion.
The figure is my platform for looking deeper into forms, lines, and the slight nuances of color that create the wonderment of the figure.
Upcoming Art Exhibition
2013
Living Art Center | The Lines of a Woman, Mixed Media; June 7st-28th, 2013 - Tulsa, OK.
Yeiser Art Center | Merit Award at the Paducah International Photography Exhibition, June 22- Aug 3rd, 2013 - Paducah, KY
Linus Gallery | Body Image On-LIne Juried Exhibition: Ongoing - Los Angles, CA.
Linus Gallery | Urban On-LIne Juried Exhibition: Ongoing - Los Angles, CA.
2014
Next Gallery | The Face of Religion, Mixed Media; Feb 7 -23rd, 2014 - Denver, CO