High School: Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA)
College: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Favorite Bands:
The Decemberists, The Strokes, Rene Gruss, Joanna Newsom, Neutral Milk Hotel, Philip Glass, Franz Ferdinand
Favorite Films:
Amelie, Born into Brothels, Finding Neverland, Good Night and Good Luck, Solaris, Painters Painting, The Devil in Daniel Johnston
Favorite Books:
The Sparrow, Soldier of the Great War, The Stranger, Art and Lies, Leviathon, Underworld, Machine in the Studio, De Kooning
Favorite TV Shows:
I dont watch TV
Heroes:
Robert Rauschenberg, Willem De Kooning, Charles Olson, Anselm Hollo, Ray Johnson, Joe Cardarelli
Body Type: average
I Am Here For: networking
Sexual Orientation: straight
Ethnicity: white_caucasian
Relationship Status: married
Religion: other
STATEMENT The visual language of my pictures is derived, to some degree, from the structure of poetry. In the same way that poetic language gains meaning through distillation, imagery also becomes more potent when extracted from its environment and context. It is in isolation that these images become part of the poem, placed in a new context and imbued with supplementary meaning. Using this inherent collective visual language, my recent work investigates the increasing isolation of the individual. The growth of our society toward a more culturally disconnected paradigm has led to a society bereft of the intimacy that was once a crucial part of interpersonal relationships between peers in a social group. These recent paintings explore this disconnection from both the community of humankind and from the natural world.
