Born and raised in Western Colorado, I trained at Colorado Mesa University, earning a BFA in Studio Art through the Department of Art & Design and a BFA in Mass Communication with a focus on media and communication. My work is shaped by both visual practice and storytelling. Outside the studio, I enjoy playing chess, traveling, and sharing life’s adventures with my wonderful partner.

Artist’s Statement

My work explores how individuals and communities navigate complexity through labor, technology, place, memory, and belief. Working primarily in oil painting and linocut printmaking. I use fragmentation, symbolism, and layered imagery to examine how meaning is constructed, challenged, and carried forward over time through repetition and accumulation. I am drawn to visual languages that allow multiple perspectives to exist simultaneously, particularly those rooted in Cubism and expressionist print traditions.

Much of my work centers on people and experiences frequently overlooked: workers whose labor sustains daily life, forces moving quietly at the margins, and histories lingering even when unspoken. Having grown up in Western Colorado and served in the military, I am shaped by physical and psychological landscapes: warzones where I served, military bases shaped by experiences of extreme hazing, and my hometown—a place that carries warmth and meaning for me while remaining complicated or even hostile for others.These experiences inform both the subject matter and the material choices within my work.

My paintings and prints resist fixed conclusions, instead encouraging viewers to consider their relationship to labor, place, and the systems that quietly shape daily life. Through carving, layering, and distortion, the work draws attention to what is often overlooked, acknowledging the endurance embedded in both material and experience.