About

Conceptual and Fine Art:

Using humor, spectacle, meta, and paradigm I create events and objects about communication, often by layering small pieces of information to create a new and unique form or experience.

These works address the potential for communication to get lost if too many ideas are being projected at once. In much of my work, I alter vocal communicative concepts and address observations about the artist / viewer relationship.

By abstracting the communicative element of the human voice, I use vocal sounds that are not official dictionary defined words but are still recognizable as expressive language. When these vocal nuances are layered on top of one another, multiplied and exponentially repeated the communication becomes indecipherable and chaotic. This illustrates the potential for language to literally get lost in translation.  (Human Sounds for Communication, 2001)

I also create sculptures that address the process of viewing art objects. (Eye to Eye Series, 2016) By combining found objects and moveable structures with implied elements of personification, I am addressing the visual process of viewing art. These sculptures are examples of the relationship an art viewer has with the art object and the paradigm of the process.

Other areas of my work are influenced by pop culture and nostalgia. Many of my portrait series’ are direct representations of figures from popular films and TV shows.

As with the nature of conversation, my work breaks off into tangents. Just as artwork and artist intensions struggle to communicate specific ideas, my subjects adapt through the organic processes by which all concepts and conversations are effected. 

Music:

Starting as many young people interested in making music do, I began singing in garage bands with friends in high school. Having a father who was a musician, musical intruments were always in the house growing up. After my interest in live bands began expanding I quickly started taking lessons from my father on guitar and immediately began writing my own material as well as covering popular songs. I also began experimenting with home recordings and music production, getting lost for hours, days and weeks in our home studio. I recorded demo tapes for local bands as well as creating my own material both with musician friends and on my own using various live and electronic instruments.

Continuing my musical journey while exploring fine art, I was fortunate to be a part of many different musical projects both in traditional live band scenarios and in studio-based endeavors.

Literatrure:

I began writing my own fiction at the age of ten, mostly based in the horror and sci-fi arenas. I have continued writing in sparse time frames throughout my adult life, finding that story ideas come to me when least expected and being patient in waiting for that ‘muse’ to speak to me. Every few years or so, I am inspired with ideas that seem to come out of nowhere and I indulge in intense waves of writing which can be consuming. Then, inevitably, as quickly as the inspiration to write comes, it disappears. This art form is the one that I seem to have the least amount of control over as it does seem to come and go as it pleases.