A Tidy Pile

2012-01-04T17:33:00.001-05:00

2011-08-18T12:59:00.001-04:00

digital!!

2011-08-16T23:59:00.000-04:00

digital!

2011-08-15T17:35:00.000-04:00

graphite

2011-06-30T16:08:00.002-04:00

portrait of Jill McMullan
acrylic, mixed media on ink jet print

2011-06-29T01:10:00.003-04:00

commissioned drawing for artist Chris Whitmore
graphite, ink, gouache on arches paper
21" x 21"

2011-06-28T23:58:00.000-04:00

2011-06-27T02:42:00.003-04:00

digital self portraits. It's been a few years.

2011-06-17T01:42:00.001-04:00

new prints on Etsy !!

2011-06-08T22:29:00.003-04:00

Portrait of Aaron Austin
ink jet, acrylic on arches paper

Portrait of Debbi Vasquez
ink jet, acrylic on arches paper

Acrylic and mixed media on wood

2011-06-07T13:20:00.002-04:00

I was quietly reminded of being 13 and romantic about the sky, the air, the light and the sound of passing cars.
Our family would stay at hotels along the highway, maybe traveling to Alabama, possibly Pennsylvania. My sister, brother and I would venture out on our bikes to whatever was around, hoping to find a view. Usually a blend of strip malls and farms. Having nowhere to go and no responsibility besides to amuse ourselves and take it all in until it was time to keep driving. Feeling only the open space of time to fill before us.
Keith Sweat and the first sunburn of the summer.
Disposible cameras and Applebees.
Bike racks, number plates, leathers and clips. The sound of our cranks and our freewheels spinning.

2011-06-06T22:42:00.002-04:00

photo of a paper sculpture taken with a poloroid macro 5 SLR 1200
preview for the upcoming show at The Dodger, June 22nd

2011-05-23T23:03:00.004-04:00

2011-05-18T00:05:00.002-04:00

Conversations and Speeches

The hardest part is getting started. Once a few lines are down, it's easy to become discouraged with the amount of work ahead. I realize the speech I've imagined is full of flaws - most of the idea is not entirely realistic for my experience and skill level. My solution to this discouragement is to abandon the ideal and work with what is in front of me. The drawing, painting or sculpture becomes a conversation; a delicate dance between planning and responding. The big picture is a spontaneous offshoot that is grown with a couple of lines and just enough determination to see it through.

Loss and Learning

I still have a lot to learn about what I'm doing and why. This direction of work began years ago when I was experiencing the loss of loved ones at an alarming rate. Ultimately, I became stoic. My emotions and ideas became focused - neither overly cheerful nor overly somber, but an underlying and steady optimism. In my work, ceremony and nature make appearances in the form of headdresses - ritual, repetition and rhythm - attached to hair and heads as memories to our minds.

2011-05-04T16:13:00.003-04:00

2011-04-19T12:29:00.004-04:00

commissioned painting for artist Shane Daley
acrylic on wood

2011-04-07T14:20:00.001-04:00

display case for prints @ Mint
(up until the end of April!)

2011-03-21T18:10:00.004-04:00

tattoo
ink, acrylic and graphite on paper
12" x 19"

2011-03-17T04:51:00.006-04:00

ink on paper/digital
prints available @ my Etsy Shop

2011-03-15T05:57:00.005-04:00

ink on paper/digital
prints available @ my Etsy Shop

2011-03-14T23:42:00.003-04:00

Shop Mint
logo design for local boutique

2011-03-14T21:23:00.002-04:00

commissioned painting for Annie Humphrey
acrylic on wood
20" x 7"

2011-03-03T02:05:00.003-05:00

mixed media on wood

2011-02-22T13:34:00.002-05:00

super 8 film/camera, all in-camera editing, shot in 2 and a half days.
2600 frames of stop-action, dry erase animation and puppets.

Audio: Neon Indian, Mux Mool, Andrews Sisters, The Avalanches
Actors: Jill McMullan and Aaron Roth

Winner of the Audience Choice award at the 2010 Super GR8 Film Festival in Harrisonburg, VA

2011-02-22T13:15:00.002-05:00

mountain
acrylic on wood
25" x 34"

2011-02-21T23:53:00.004-05:00

commissioned painting for filmmaker Paul Somers
mixed media on wood
17" X 20"

2011-02-20T23:48:00.003-05:00

collaboration with artist Anthony Zollo
mixed media on wood
12½" x 8½"

2011-02-14T21:51:00.003-05:00

commissioned painting for artist Katie Reihman
mixed media on wood
12" x 12"

Motivation

2011-02-03T13:49:00.003-05:00

a power surge has rendered my computer fatally broken. completely done.
(to be continued)
(soon)

2011-01-15T03:48:00.004-05:00

Cally's Restaurant & Brewing Co.
pint glass designs for a local restaurant and microbrewery

2011-01-14T17:09:00.005-05:00

The Natural Garden
logo design for a local ecological landscape company

graphite on paper

2011-01-13T01:55:00.001-05:00

digital

2011-01-12T17:48:00.001-05:00

ink on paper

2011-01-08T19:02:00.005-05:00

ink on paper

2010-11-24T14:54:00.004-05:00

custom tattoo design
ink on paper

2010-11-09T15:24:00.009-05:00

workin' for the yankee dollar
film poster painting
approx 11" x 17"
acrylic and mixed media on wood

2010-10-26T03:20:00.004-04:00

digital photography

2010-10-25T02:39:00.012-04:00

Super gr8 Film Festival
workin for the yankee dollar
still frames / studio shots from the making of the film

2010-08-30T00:33:00.003-04:00

ink and graphite on paper

2010-06-01T15:52:00.011-04:00

rain
acrylic and mixed media on wood

2009-11-29T20:28:00.004-05:00

fields of marshmellows and birds nests and ants in the dirt and the sunshine
acrylic and mixed media on board

2009-10-19T23:06:00.003-04:00

digital

2009-09-16T18:24:00.008-04:00

milk mask
acrylic on skateboard deck

the return of milk mask
acrylic and mixed media on wood deck

2009-08-31T01:42:00.007-04:00

mural project for the City of Harrisonburg (a tribute to Josef Albers' squares)

tattoo
graphite and ink on paper

2009-07-17T15:35:00.002-04:00

digital

2009-07-15T12:15:00.004-04:00

digital

2009-06-27T12:42:00.005-04:00

digital

2009-06-23T16:57:00.009-04:00

ESandra Hollman
graphite on paper

2009-05-15T22:21:00.006-04:00

Sylvia
mixed media on paper
in collaboration with artist Brandon Dunlap

2009-04-03T01:59:00.003-04:00

digital

2009-03-24T01:23:00.005-04:00

mixed media on cardboard

2009-02-14T15:36:00.012-05:00

freelance design for Whole Foods

green street
mixed media on wood

2009-02-11T22:41:00.006-05:00

2009-02-06T12:29:00.003-05:00

2009-02-06T11:36:00.010-05:00

mural project for Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant

2009-01-03T18:58:00.006-05:00

ink on paper

2009-01-02T01:21:00.010-05:00

ink on paper

2008-12-08T22:30:00.005-05:00

sculpture process photos

2008-12-05T22:30:00.007-05:00

sharpie and highlighters on paper

2008-11-18T22:40:00.008-05:00

Sable Macon
graphite on paper

2008-11-17T04:57:00.008-05:00

good morning
graphite on paper/digital

2008-11-16T02:31:00.011-05:00

illustration for Time Out Chicago

2008-11-09T00:58:00.008-05:00

Christina
mixed media on paper

digital

2008-11-07T00:57:00.007-05:00

ink on paper

2008-10-14T03:12:00.009-04:00

2008-10-07T20:48:00.007-04:00

Kevin Dean music machine
ink and acrylic on paper

2008-10-05T14:29:00.006-04:00

ink on paper

graphite on paper

2008-10-01T01:44:00.013-04:00

2525
mixed media on wood

(friend support - makes it worth the long nights)

2008-10-01T00:28:00.008-04:00

mixed media on paper

2008-09-16T00:58:00.009-04:00

ink on paper

2008-08-18T00:53:00.010-04:00

album art for Awestruck - Orlando, FL
digital

2008-07-13T23:02:00.006-04:00

2008-07-13T01:29:00.009-04:00

ink on paper

2008-07-03T21:51:00.020-04:00

phantom limb
cork, gypsum cement, chair

untitled (studio ghost I)
cotton, gypsum cement

untitled (studio ghost II)plastic, moss, wood, antlers

ink on paper

graphite on paper

ink on paper

graphite on paper

ink on paper

graphite on paper

ink on paper

graphite and ink on paper

ink on paper

2008-04-15T11:57:00.009-04:00

dyad
poster design
collaboration with artist Anthony Zollo

2008-02-04T19:36:00.006-05:00

dirty but sophisticated IV - art/fashion/music
site specific installation

collaboration with artists Anthony Zollo and Marina Williams

t.shirts

2008-01-29T01:02:00.006-05:00

build and destroy
site specific installation at the Tampa Museum of Art

collaboration with artist Anthony Zollo

stop action animation film of assembling and disassembling the installation

2007-12-02T21:29:00.006-05:00

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untitled (studio ghost III)
styrofoam, plaster, fabric and wood

untitled (studio ghost IV)
sewing machine, plastic, feathers

big shoes
dad's boots, bird cage, plaster, wax

I have been learning to deal with the recent deaths of many of my friends and family, which has made me increasingly aware of the transformations taking place within myself and the world around me. I feel as though this constant ebb and flow of time and season are the only constants I can count on; this is where I'm finding comfort in feelings of desperation, confusion or reflection. Everything in life shares equivalent (though different) qualities of function, and seemingly unrelated events can be used to explain one another quite effectively. The metaphors and symbolism that lay in the core of storytelling and fables have always made these comparisons relevant. Humankind has used stories to poetically explain and guide our people through circumstances of life, the mystery of death and thereafter. Although the literal characteristics of death are sometimes not apparent, death is the underlying theme behind my work.

These surrealistic assemblages are made from objects of personal history and represent people of great influence to me. They are stories of union, duality, transition, resurrection or reincarnation - themes that have been heavily reiterated and sought throughout my life. Some conceptual conclusions of my work are made effortlessly and without a prelude, the significance only being realized when I take a moment to step back and look at what I've assembled. Other conclusions never seem to feel fully resolved no matter how much I think about it. I find this a metaphor in itself for the story of our lives.

When connecting with either my peers or my viewers over the themes of my work, which are the themes of my immediate experience, I feel a genuine camaraderie that transcends ego boundaries. I have always found creating visual and aural metaphors as the most fulfilling way to communicate my true character with others, as it sometimes opens a deep channel to further communication in a way which can only be described as truly human.

2007-10-29T20:40:00.007-04:00

this may change, it may stay the same
mixed media on wood

fancy stripe
mixed media on wood

over change
mixed media on wood
collaboration with artist Anthony Zollo

the beginning was the end
mixed media on wood

Victoria
acrylic and graphite on wood

ahead
acrylic and mixed media on wood

farewell
acrylic and graphite on wood

2007-10-26T02:32:00.003-04:00

I think all computers are over-used and tired. Let's give them a rest and go outside.

Imagine what it would be like if everyone in the world took a day off from their computers on the same day. It would be like Madonna's 80's hit song 'Celebration', the world's largest picnic. We could play t-ball and go dancing. Or take a well deserved nap.

2007-10-25T02:05:00.006-04:00

ink on paper

collage on paper