EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from USI
AWARDS
2004 USI Merit Award in Painting
SHORT BIO
When I was a kid, we moved around the Midwest a lot. We spent time in Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, and Missouri before settling down in the Hoosier state. Despite all of our temporary living arrangements, I took solace in those Arkansas summers. My mom would be cooking blackberry jam and I'd be drawing Winnie the Pooh inside some coloring book. The countless hours spent scribbling, smudging, and coloring never really stopped. I'd like to think that it helped steer the overall direction of my work, but it wasn't long until I had moved on to recreating comic book art back in Indiana. With only a few minor artistic victories in elementary school, junior high, and high school, I had basically given up pursuing my 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 most recently 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's philosophy on art has always resonated with me despite never reading any of his books. His words help explain the less cliché aspects of being an artist without complicating things. Art is just a part of who we are; it’s part of human life. Everyone has a sense of art in the same way we have a sense of humor. We decide what's interesting or amusing to us. That sense is builds a brief connection between the artist and the viewer. Adding onto those connections, I try to mimic the aesthetics of the same illustrative art that I loved as a kid. Using traditional mediums and materials along with non-traditional elements (skateboards, paint can lids, salvaged wood, cardboard, plastic novelty eyes, spray paint cans, vintage blue prints, old receipts, vinyl records, scrap metal, etc), I try to make sense out what's not making sense. Through experimentation, repetition, and consistent compositions found throughout my life's work, I bridge the gap between me and my audience more and more, forming a story with materials that compliment and/or contrasts my 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 cartoons, comic books, craft art, junk art, assemblage, graffiti, and collage.
SHOWS & EXHiBiTiONS
2023
Issue # 1
ink Gallery
Colwyn Bay, Wales
Back to Basics
The Art Garage
Green Bay, Wisconsin
2022
Urban Suburbanites
Museum of Contemporary Art
Patchogue, NY
2021
Muneca Is Dead
Muneca Arthouse
Bohemia, NY
Rickety, Rackety
Mason-Nordgauer Fine Arts Gallery
New Harmony, IN
2020
Stoopid Fresh
Mason-Nordgauer Fine Arts Gallery
New Harmony, IN
The Grand Re-Reopening Show
Muneca Arthouse
Patchogue, NY
Pandemic Protest Blues Exhibit
Muneca Arthouse
Patchogue, NY
Leftovers
Blue Stocking Social
Evansville, IN
2019
FUGLY
Muneca Arthouse
Patchogue, NY
Brews & Views
Carson’s Brewery
Evansville, IN
Monsters
Muneca Arthouse
Patchogue, NY
2018
Gruesome
Muneca Arthouse
Patchogue, NY
Imaginationally
PG Gallery & Cafe
Evansville, IN
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
Patchogue, NY
2017
Lucky Numbers
Ripe Art Gallery
Long Island, NY
Acknickulous
Ripe Art Gallery
Long Island, NY
A Heart That Resembles a Cave
PG Gallery & Café
Evansville, IN
Space Madness V: There Is No Cure
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
A Perfectly Good Whiteboy
Peephole
Evansville, IN
A Study in Moppishness
Dragon King’s Daughter
Louisville, KY
2015
Miniatures Exhibit
Bower-Surheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
For a Good Time, Call Yourself
PG Gallery & Cafe
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 Beach, NY
KNiVES iN/OUT
Dragon's King's Daughter
New Albany, IN
2014
TOO MUCH / NOT TOO MUCH
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
The Big Lebowski in Little China
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
PG's Anniversary Show
PG Gallery & Cafe, Evansville, IN
Colorplay
Studio J Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
ARTBRN
Ripe Art Gallery
Long Island, 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 Beach, NY
2013
Entartete Kunst
Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery
Evansville, IN
Teaching Apes to Write Poems
Winzerwald Tasting Room
Evansville, IN
2012
A Machine, B Machines
Wired Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
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
BLANK
Abyssco
Evansville, IN
Bukowski Tribute Art Show
Lorelei’s Art Gallery
Newburgh, 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
ByProduct
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2007
Fractal Autumn
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2006
Static Birdhouses
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2005
Art 101: Collaborative
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
Raw Disposable
Stoked Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
2004
Working Together
Evansville Museum
Evansville, IN
The Idea Comes First
Penny Lane Coffeehouse
Evansville, IN
34th Annual USI Annual Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
2003
33rd Annual USI Annual Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
USI Senior Art Show
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
2002
DJ Art Gallery Juried Art Exhibition
DJ Gallery
Evansville, IN
2001
Old National Bank Art Exhibition
Old National Bank
Evansville, IN
2000
30th Annual USI Annual Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN
1999
29th Annual USI Annual Juried Exhibition
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN