CV

Exhibitions

2023 Overshot, Bradley University, Peoria, IL *solo

2022 Soft Power, Pazo Fine Art, Kensington, MD

Funny HaHa, West Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA *solo

2021 DC Art Now, DC Commision of the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

2020 Into the Void, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson, MD

2019 Ocarina of Time, Resort, Baltimore, MD

Bethesda Painting Awards, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

How Can You Tell?, CADE Gallery of Art, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD

2018 Limoncello, St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD

Solitary Bees, Visart Center, Rockville, MD *solo

2017 Sondheim Finalist Exhibition, Walter’s Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Edges, MAXGallery, Baltimore, MD

In My Room, Linden Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2016 Mid-Atlantic New Painting, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

2015 So Hot Right Now, Arizona State University Gallery, Tempe, AZ

Perspective 2015, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC

2014 Colors and Things, Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury, MD

Gutsy!, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD

Convergence: Boston University Alumni Show, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

Dedication: Faculty Exhibition, CCBC Essex Gallery, Rosedale, MD

2013 See Through, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD *solo

Strictly Painting, McLean Center for the Arts, McLean, VA

Shake Down, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2012 Call Collect, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC

Small Paintings, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD * solo

Walk the Line, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

2010 MFA Thesis II, Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

Awards, Residencies, and Text

2019 Best in Show, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, MD

2018 Inertia Studio Visits, Interview

2018  Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Nominee

2016    Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

2016  Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

2013  Michael Farley, The World is Flat, Baltimore City Paper, January 16, 2013

2012   Residency, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY

2011   Semi-Finalist, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, MD

2011   Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2008-2010 Mount Royal Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2005   Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Education

2010 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD

      Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studio Art

        Mount Royal School of Art

 2004 Boston University, Boston, MA

         Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting

         College of Fine Arts

Statement

I build self-contained worlds of nameable and unnamable objects. My paintings explore the narrative potential of abstraction, creating dialogues between passive and active forms, twisted organic shapes, and hand-rendered geometry. These forms behave as physical objects, catching light, casting shadows, and weaving through surfaces to create both entryways and barriers. At the same time, the space remains ambiguous as overlapping shapes dominate and undermine each other, blurring the line between abstraction and illusionism.

Each painting creates and eventually solves a self-generated problem, and I work responsively until a dominant moment emerges. My process is both intuitive and analytical. I layer thick impasto, transparent glazes, immediate brushstrokes, and slow accumulations of marks eventually finding resolution within the carefully curated chaos. Color is a dominant motivation, with saturated hues shifting between harmony and discord, while patterns blend and compete like reams of fabric piled on a table.

My visual language draws from digital and physical media, combining flat space, drop shadows, and abundance of stimuli with the tactile world of architecture, dog-eared book pages, textiles, and handwritten notes. I borrow from pareidolia, trompe l’oeil still lifes, and cartoons, constructing layered environments that play with perception. Through humor and the suspension of disbelief, I explore the power of suggestion and our innate desire to find order and meaning in what we see.