BIOGRAPHY

I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1971. The youngest of four boys, I grew up in New Hampshire, summered in Maine, and finally moved to Maine when I was fifteen. In 1990, I enrolled in the B.F.A. program at Maine College of Art where I graduated with honors in 1994. There, I studied most closely with James Cambronne and Johnnie Winona Ross. In the years following Maine College of Art, I attended residency programs at Vermont Studio Center and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. In 1997, my wife, Karen,and I moved to the New York City area to attend graduate school. I received my M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1999. As a graduate student, I worked as an assistant for Donald Sultan in New York. Today, we live in New Jersey and summer in Maine.


PAINTINGS

My paintings are constructed with many layers of applied and sanded paint. Making use of words, maps, flags, and found internet photos, the imagery is relatively simple, graphically bold, and sometimes political. In addition, my paintings are about paint and exploring the line between abstraction and representation. My best paintings force me to embark on an investigative journey rather than simply depict an idea. Ultimately, I like to be surprised by my work.