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 memory stores and replicates things in an inaccurate, personal way. In my work, erasure, fragmentation and simplification represent the imperfect, limited nature of memory and the constant notion of flux in the physical and digital world. I want to replicate the transitional state between the past and the unknown and focus on the idea of being in a perpetual state of potential.

The idea of being in a state of potential, whether it be great expectations or inescapable fear or both, is my main focus. 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. 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 PRINTMAKING PROCESS.