Biography

In 1996 I graduated from the California College of Arts (formerly known as the California College of Arts and Crafts) with a BFA in Painting. Strongly encouraged by several of my painting and art history instructors, I spent my final semester in Florence, Italy at the Studio Art Centers International. During my four month stay, with considerable travel throughout northern Italy, I became fascinated with the countless aging buildings and ruins I saw. I shot over 40 rolls of film dedicated to close-ups of peeling paint, cracks, worn surfaces etc. This newfound interest in the ways surfaces age tied in with my longstanding interest in aerial photographs of the ruins of indigenous architecture.

For the past eleven years I have been working full time in the studio. By the end of the second year I had discovered the necessity of my work having an open-ended time frame while developing. A significant number of paintings have taken as long as two years to complete, and I usually work on anywhere from 10 to 20 paintings and drawings at a time. Working in a highly intuitive state of mind is paramount.