New Work

Happy 2010

I am still very thankful to have God in my life, and what he brings me through my prayers and my faith--i would be nothing without him. I want to thank everyone my wife, my peers, my teachers for their guidance and support over the years--i know this work has manifested because i am not ever alone. Amen

Most Work can be purchased at the Rosenthal Gallery located in San Francisco Ca

Artist Statement

Drawing is the core of my practice. My relationship with it dates back and is fundamentally bound to my earliest childhood memories. It is the most natural, intuitive medium in which to examine my past and the world around me. I believe that drawing encompasses much more than traditional definitions allow. Line is a visionary tool. A line creates a distinction. It delimits space and thereby defines the boundaries of ideas. I experiment by hanging work from the ceiling and by cutting and pasting shapes. Intricate ink work is incorporated into most of my drawings. Because my work is often personal, I try to allow the process the relationship between myself, my tools, my hand and what I have chosen to portray to guide my work, rather than attempting to transcribe some preconception of how the work should be. I do not erase, or correct other sorts of errors. I make a piece of art once, and when I have finished I am done. Each work aspires to be a true and complete record of the process that created it. I have discovered that mistakes are often more substantial and expressive (and also more honest and revealing) than more correct or polished work. I often use thick paper material such as foam board, cardboard, heavy 400lb Arches watercolor paper, as well as an array of nonstandard and found materials (fabric, stones, thread, packing material etc). I use them because they are beautiful, but also because they relate intuitively to my concerns as an artist.