Fine Art — Painting, Mixed Media & Conceptual Practice

Fine Art — Painting, Mixed Media & Conceptual Practice

The medium is not the work. The work is the idea made physical — and the idea doesn't care what material it passes through.

That's the principle my fine art practice runs on. I began working in Sumi ink on rice paper, drawn to the discipline it demands: the brush doesn't forgive hesitation, and the ink doesn't wait for certainty. The work that came from that practice was described, by more than one person, as resembling William S. Burroughs — not the content, but the relationship to language, to the mark, to the collision between intention and accident. I took that as a direction rather than a comparison.

From there, the practice has expanded into acrylic, mixed media, and whatever form the current investigation requires. I am not attached to a material signature. I am attached to the question.

My influences in this work are Yves Klein — for the way he made absence into presence, and turned a colour into a philosophy — Paul Reps, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac. The through-line is not visual style but a relationship to making: fast, direct, committed, uninterested in the appearance of effort.

Recent exhibitions and residencies

In 2025, six of seven pieces sold at Gallery Art Nova Berlin — the most direct signal an art market can send.

In 2023, I presented a 52-piece solo exhibition at Oak and Ice in Berlin, accompanied by live music. In 2021, I was in residence at Chateau Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France — painting, sculpture, and digital media. In 2019, photographic work from the TOLAH project was selected for a juried group exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. In 2020, a solo show at SOAP Gallery in Youngstown, Ohio. The Pillow Project produced ten exhibitions over nine years in Pittsburgh. In 2021, I participated in a simultaneous Berlin, Tokyo, and Metaverse group show featuring 75 artists, a 12-piece band, and projection art.

Selected solo exhibitions: Oak and Ice Berlin (2023), Chateau Orquevaux France (2021), SOAP Gallery Youngstown Ohio (2020), Point Park University Dance Complex (2008–2023, 15-year exhibition).

Selected group exhibitions: Gallery Art Nova Berlin (2025), Venice Art Crawl Venice Beach (2021, live painting projected on building), Manos Gallery Tarentum PA (2021), Fashion Institute of Technology New York (2019), The Pillow Project Pittsburgh (2008–2017, 10 exhibitions).

Artist residencies: Chateau Orquevaux, France (2021). The Haven Residency, Gabriola Arts Council, British Columbia (2020, selected; held due to COVID).

Available work

Original paintings and prints are available through this site. For gallery inquiries, institutional acquisition, or commission discussions, contact directly.