I was born St. Louis, Missouri and studied at Ball State University and The Art Students League of New York. My work has been exhibited in Austin Texas and New York City and is included in private collections around the U.S. such as Austin, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The Four Seasons Hotel in Austin used my Austin landscapes and Texas themed pop art in various print media around the hotel. In 2002 I opened Epiphany Gallery in Soho New York and exhibited the work of my contemporaries and my own work in an effort to rehabilitate a post 9/11 lower Manhattan. Our shows were a great success and the culture of art in Soho helped reestablish a sense of recovery in New York. Although the gallery only lived for one year it has been a joy to watch the work of my colleagues such as Anthony Freda and Billy the Artist continue to gain exposure.
Although my greatest influences are Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton and Alice Neel, Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keeffe, I truly have developed my own unique style. I look forward to sharing it with you!

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1985 – 1988 // Ball State University. Fine Arts Program with concentration in Drawing and Painting

Muncie, Indiana

1994 – 2001 // Art Students League. Concentration in Sculpture and Studio Painting – Landscape

2018 – Art Students League. Concentration Printmaking and Lithography

New York, New York

Experience

2002 – 2004

Epiphany Gallery – Owner/ Artist

160 Mercer St – between Spring and Broome NYC

Opened and Operated an independent art gallery in New York’s SoHo during a post 911 economic climate. All of Lower Manhattan had been evacuated by big business and I personally took SoHo back and gave it to the artists again. It was a brief and beautiful Renaissance.

The Gallery showed local artists including Anthony Freda and Billy The Artist and of course, myself.

2005 – 2014

Four Seasons Hotel Austin Texas

Curated the local collection of art in the Hotel Lobby

This included working closely with local galleries including but not limited to Gallery Shoal Creek, The Wally Workman Gallery and The Bill Davis Gallery

2013 to 2014

Artist in Residence at Four Seasons Hotel Austin

Winter 2017 – Mural Belvue Hospital Children’s Psychiatric Department

Art Night Exhibits- Upper West Side 2019, 2022 – multiple locations

August to September 2021

Artist in Residence- Estudio Corazon at Ghost Ranch. Abiquiu, New Mexico .

Spring 2022 – mural Hamilton Hall. Harlem NYC

April 14 – July 5 2022 – Art on the Avenue

spring summer exhibit. group show. “Creating Tomorrow”

Summer 2023 June – #ArtOnLink exhibit on #LinkNYC on every street in NYC