BIO

BORN
1976 - Aiken, SC

EDUCATION
1999 - BFA, University of South Carolina

SELECT CLIENTS
The New Yorker, Netflix, Vice Magazine, Urban Outfitters, Marc O’Polo, Square Enix, Society6, Columbia University Press, in4mation, FM-84

INTENT

I paint and draw the way my memory stores and replicates things in an inaccurate, personal way. Memory is flawed and unreliable, built for survival above accuracy. I want to replicate the transitional state between the past and the unknown. The idea of being in a state of potential, whether it be great expectations or inescapable fear or both. I erase identities from old photos, leaving fragmented images of these ghosts. I occasionally pixelate images, representing the simplified way the past exists in my mind. I occasionally put these things in empty rooms, representing these spaces of transition, isolation, and order. I wanted to be an architect when I was young. I find comfort in order and I suppose putting these memories into pictures is a type of tangible order. I draw these skeletons over and over, repeating like stars over the shoulder of Orion in the sky. Or a favorite song on repeat. Repetition feels like the overwhelming nature of the things I've seen. The unknown feels like the flux of now and what happens next.

A few INTERVIEWS.

A selection of EXHIBITIONS.

A detailed step by step of my PIGMENT TRANSFER PROCESS.