Nature uses visual patterns to communicate pre-verbally, in an inter-species network of cues—the warning coloration of a hornet’s stripes, the “false-eye” patterns of a saturniid moth, or the dynamic camouflage of a chameleon.

While art itself is an outgrowth of this collaboration—a distillation of nature's philosophy, operating by cyclical laws, algorithms and evolving patterns—the idea of such simplicity is ultimately seductive, a salve. Art must also be a place for entropy, where "anything goes,” and where relative valuations may apply. In my work, insects serve as liminal figures, positioned on the fault lines of worlds both terrestrial and palpably alien. Painting, for me, allows the exploration of such aesthetic vectors: the absurd and improbable, the unlikely combination of form, content, depth, and space.

My media of choice include wood-panel frames and acrylic paint, onto which I overlay extensive line drawing with India ink and collage paper elements. As a significant proportion of my work is composed of hand-drawn box patterning and thin concentric lines, I work intuitively, often with nebulous ideas in mind. The process by which I work thus informs much of the content and subject matter. Like chipping and dusting a stone slab to reveal the fossilized specimen within, my work emerges from a painstaking and curious archeology—one of earthly materials and “sci-fi” imaginaries.



Resumé

Education

Montserrat College of Art 2003-2007 Bachelor’s of Fine Art: Painting

Showings

Work currently on display @ -->www.h01z.us

Arttrap gallery, Joshua Tree
Opening reception: April 20, 2019
March 2018- April 2019: Frontier Café
April 18th, 2016 Beatnik Lounge: Goddess Show
February 14th, 2016 : Love Show
January 10th, 2015 : Collage Show
May 18th, 2012 Temple Ad Hock: Inaugural Prospectives
August 11th, 2011 Downtown Independant: ARTWERQ
May 17th, 2010 Colosseum Fine Arts: Downtown LA Artwalk
March 7th, 2007 Montserrat College of Art senior seminar show: Deciduous
April 2003 Suffield Village solo exhibition