When I was a kid, my family moved around the Midwest a lot. We spent time in Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, and Missouri before settling down in the Hoosier state. Even in my 40’s, I can still remember scribbling, smudging, and tracing the pages of a Winnie the Pooh activity book while my mom made blackberry jam and zucchini bread.

Those long summers in Arkansas endlessly drawing and coloring helped shape my love for art and guided the overall direction of my work. After a few minor artistic victories in elementary school, junior high, and high school, I had basically given up pursuing art as a career. A few years later, at some dead end retail job, a coworker encouraged me to enroll at a local college.

Long story short, I earned my Bachelors of Science in Studio Art from the University of Southern Indiana in 2004 as a non-traditional student. Since then, my work has been seen in Juxtapoz and Hi Fructose magazines as well as various art venues in Chicago, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and the country of Wales. Collectors from all over the world have purchased my work and it always blows me away. Currently, I live and work in Evansville, Indiana with my girlfriend Jeannie along with our two cats Roosevelt and Lincoln.

Artist Statement

“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider art as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life”.

- Tolstoy

That has always resonated with me and it lets me quote Tolstoy even though I’ve never read any of his books. It explains the elusive or unexplainable tropes of being an artist without complicating things or sounding like a pretentious weirdo. Art is just a part of who we are; it’s part of human life. Piggy-backing his philosophy, I think everyone has a sense of art in the same way we have a sense of humor. We personally decide what we consider interesting or amusing. That’s where small connections are made between people, between the artist and the audience. By building on those small connections, I try to amuse people and explain my thoughts. I use traditional and non-traditional platforms like skateboards, paint can lids, discarded wood, and scrap metal to try and strengthen those connections. Familiar materials or common everyday objects helps bridge that connection, it helps form a story, and compliment or contrast the imagery. I’m influenced mostly by art and artists from the last 100 years in trying to create my own personal style and approach while exploring abstract expressionism, minimalism, pop art, graffiti, and collage.