Artist Statement
I am from the southeastern United States. The landscapes, history, idiosyncrasies, and contradictions of this region have shaped me as well as the interests, themes, and content of my work. Of late I have been drawn to using cultural signifiers to insinuate this interest in regionalism and its subculture. With much of this recent work I have intentionally degraded the surfaces and images to create a sense of fleeting sentimentality, in the same way our experience of memories can become skewed or fictitious over time.

Born in Brunswick, Georgia, in 1977.
Family relocated to Franklin, Virginia in 1978.
Graduated from Franklin High School in 1995.
Graduated from The University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1999 with a B.A. in Art, concentration in Painting.
Awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts Council and the Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear in 1999.
Relocated to New York, New York in 2003 Graduate Study in Art at SUNY-Empire State College, 2003-2004.

Presently living and working in Brooklyn, New York.