EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from USI
AWARDS
2004 USI Merit Award in Painting
SHORT BIO
When I was a kid, my dysfunctional family moved around the midwest a lot. We spent time in Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, and Missouri before settling down in the Hoosier state. To this day, I can still remember scribbling, smudging, and tracing the pages of a Winnie the Pooh activity book while my mom made blackberry jam and zuchinni bread. Those endless summers in Arkansas, drawing and coloring, helped shape my love for art and guided the overall direction of my work. Only having a handful of minor artistic victories in elementary school, junior high, and high school, I basically gave up pursuing art as a career after graduation. A couple of 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 that always blows me away when I think about it. Currently, I live and work in Evansville, Indiana with my girlfriend Jeannie (who is a phenomenal artist) 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” ~ Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy's philosophy on art has always resonated with me and allows me to quote a Nobel Prize laureate despite never reading any of his books. Leo explains the mysterious cliché aspects of art without complicating things. Art is just a natural part of our human experience. I believe everyone has a "sense of art" in the same way we have a sense of humor. We get to decide what's interesting or amusing to us. That amusement helps build connections with each other. And those connections are conjured by the slightly to especially familiar aesthetics seen in my artwork. Heavily influenced by cartoons, comic books, craft art, junk art, assemblage, graffiti, and collage, I meld together traditional and nontraditional materials into my own eco-conscious style of upcycled art that I fondly refer to as a "slop-surrealism". Experimenting with common objects, repurposing the discarded, attaching my own brand of imagery, and themes helps create an amusing connection between me and my audience. Regardless of Tolstoy's brilliance, it has always been a pleasure in trying capture the imagination of other people and share my lifelong condition of being an artist.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Rickety-Rackety
Mason-Nordgauer Fine Arts Gallery
New Harmony, IN
2020 Stoopid Fresh
Mason-Nordgauer Fine Arts Gallery
New Harmony, IN
Leftovers
Blue Stocking Social, Evansville, IN
2019 FUGLY
Muneca Arthouse, Patchogue, NY
2018 Imaginationally
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
2017 My Heart Resembles a Cave
PG Gallery & Café, Evansville, IN
2016 A Perfectly Good Whiteboy
Peephole, Evansville, IN
A Study in Moppishness
Dragon King’s Daughter
Louisville, KY
2015 KNiVES iN/OUT
Dragon's King's Daughter
New Albany, IN
2014 TOO MUCH / NOT TOO MUCH
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
2013 Teaching Apes to Write Poems
Winzerwald Tasting Room
Evansville, IN
2012 A Machines, B Machines
Wired Coffeehouse, Evansville, IN
2008 ByProduct
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2006 Static Birdhouses
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2005 Raw Disposable
Stoked Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2004 The Idea Comes First
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Acknickulous
Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, NY
2015 For a Good Time, Call Yourself
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Issue #1
ink Gallery, Colen Bay, Wales
Back to Basics
The Art Garage, Greenbay, WI
2022 High Expectations
Inside Town, Chicago, IL
Urban Suburbanites
MOCA, Patchogue, NY
2021 Muneca Is Dead
Muneca Arthouse, Bohemia, NY
2020 The Grand Re-Reopening Show
Muneca Arthouse, Patchogue, NY
Pandemic Protest Blues Exhibit
Muneca Arthouse, Bohemia, NY
2019 Brews & Views
Carson’s Brewery, Evansville, IN
Monsters
Muneca Arthouse, Bohemia, NY
2018 Gruesome
Muneca Arthouse, Bohemia, NY
Familiar Faces 2
Galerie F, Chicago, IL
Animal Instinct
Speakeasy, Long Beach, NY
PG Anniversary Show
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
Muneca Arthouse Grand Opening
Muneca Arthouse, Bohemia, NY
2017 Lucky Numbers
Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, NY
Space Madness V
Angel Mounds, Evansville, IN
PG Anniversary Show
PG Gallery & Café, Evansville, IN
Kings & Queens
Speakeasy, Long Beach, NY
This Is (Not) an Art Show
Rumjahn Gallery, Evansville, IN
Restless
Galerie F, Chicago, IL
2016 Street Level
Galerie F, Chicago, IL
Ground Control
Ivy Tech Gallery, Evansville, IN
Derelicte
Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
Space Madness IV
Angel Mounds, Evansville, IN
PG's Anniversary Show
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
2015 Miniatures Exhibit
Bower-Surheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
PG's Anniversary Show
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
DeNude
22 Jefferson Art Gallery, Evansville, IN
Space Madness III: Planet Doom
Angel Mounds, Evansville, IN
Supernatural
New Harmony Contemporary Art Gallery
New Harmony, IN
There Were Monsters
Speakeasy, Long Island, NY
2014 The Big Lebowski in Little China
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
PG's Anniversary Show
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
Colorplay
Studio J Gallery, Long Island, NY
ARTBRN
Ripe Art Gallery, Rockport, NY
Space Madness II: There Is No Cure
Angel Mounds, Evansville, IN
#fineartreadytoshow
Bower-Surheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
Decks on Display
Urban Outfitters, Long Island, NY
2013 Entartete Kunst
Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
2012 Space Madness
Angel Mounds, Evansville, IN
Doomsday
Angel Mounds, Evansville, IN
2011 Mass Distraction
Weinbach Pop-Up Gallery
Evansville, IN
2010 Art in the City
Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
Big Picture Series
Glowing Sands Glass Works, Evansville, IN
Bukowski Tribute Art Show
Lorelei’s Art Gallery, Evansville, IN
2009 Balloon Days
Penny Lane Coffeehouse, Evansville, IN
Digitized
Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
2008 The Shaded Method
Penny Lane Coffeehouse, Evansville, IN
Fabulous Weapons
Penny Lane Coffeehouse, Evansville, IN
2007 Fractal Autumn
Penny Lane Coffeehouse, Evansville, IN
2005 Art 101: Collaborative
Penny Lane Coffeehouse, Evansville, IN
2004 Working Together
Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
34th Annual USI Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
2003 33rd Annual USI Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
USI Senior Art Show
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
2002 DJ Art Gallery Juried Exhibition
DJ Gallery, Evansville, IN
Old National Bank Art Exhibition
Old National Bank, Evansville, IN
2000 30th Annual USI Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
1999 29th Annual USI Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN