Bio:   I create images that combine symbols of American mid-century nostalgia, in particular the suburb, with today's mood of anxiety and impending apocalypse. 

I have always been interested in using art as a way of understanding and reflecting history and society. When I was nine, I obsessively reenacted Reagan’s assassination attempt with my Star Wars figures and I suppose in some way I haven’t grown out of that stage. 

In 2013, after getting laid off from a financially rewarding but spiritually deadening corporate job, I returned to making art. Namely, I started painting portraits of every U.S. vice president with an octopus on his head. (Like you do.) Veeptopus proved to be surprisingly popular and was featured on BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, and the New York Times. I even funded a book of the series on Kickstarter.

I subsequently have transitioned away from cephalopod-themed artwork. In 2018, I started teaching myself to paint in oil. Since then, my work has been featured in multiple galleries including the Gallery House in Palo Alto, Marin MOCA, TAG Gallery in Los Angeles, and the DeYoung museum.

Artist Statement: I create oil paintings that recall the vibrancy and optimism of America during the Cold War, reframed to reflect the anxiety and uncertainty of this current era. I draw inspiration from vintage snapshots culled from the 1950s through to the 1980s and use them in a way that creates compositional tension between positive and negative space.

I’m drawn to images that seem to be small parts of a larger narrative; images that raise more questions than they resolve. My paintings are fragments of mid-20th century suburban life where disaster seems to lurk just beyond the frame.

Exhibits:

Salon at the Triton Museum of Art, 2024

Water and Wine (Solo Show), Lo-fi Wines, Los Alamos, CA 2024

City Streets, Studio Gallery, 2024

Interiors, Studio Gallery, 2024

Tiny, Studio Gallery 2023

Salon at the Triton Museum of Art, 2023

Delicious, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, 2023

Summer Program, Shoh Gallery, Berkeley, 2023

Land on Fire (Solo Show), Lo-fi Wines, Los Alamos, CA 2023

Tiny, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, 2022

Colors, Marin Society of Artists, San Raphael, 2022

Flourish, Citadel Art Gallery, San Jose, 2022

Pure Paint, Art Benicia, Benicia CA, 2021

Big Show on Big Art, JCO’s Art Haus, Los Gatos, CA 2021

California Open 2021, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles 2021

All About Women, Marin Society of Artist, San Raphael, 2021

De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco 2020

Justice, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA 2020

PANIC, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley 2020

2021?, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA 2020 • First Prize

California Open 2020, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles 2020

Celebration of Art 2020, Marin Society of Artist, San Raphael 2020

Cul de Sac, Solo Show, Kaleid Gallery, San Jose 2020

Expressions, Marin Society of Artist, San Raphael 2020 • First Prize

Left Coast, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato CA 2020