About

The human experience is a topic that has been depicted for centuries, but still new perspectives emerge daily. My work revolves around capturing glimpses of our shared human experience. I portray friends, family, myself, significant others, and more, to get the full human identity. I explore areas including human identity, body image, human-encountered objects, and spaces that are sacred to humans. Working in oil paint, charcoal, and collage I strive to achieve a realistic rendering that allows people to find themselves in my art. My paintings have a variety of colors; however, I usually stay on one spectrum of the color wheel for different paintings. Many times I add mist or swirls in my work, which depict an otherworldly feeling.

Although oil painting is my primary medium, I also engage with oil pastels, acrylic, and collage. The variety of mediums allows me to engage with my art in different ways and techniques, to convey different messages. With oil painting, my work is able to be preserved for a long period of time, contradicting our mortal human lives. Art immortalizes its subjects, and mine and others experiences will be solidified in human history forever.

My goal is to open up people's minds to different aspects and ideas of the human condition. Showing not just one experience, but many facets of being human. As most of my art does contain a part of myself, it also serves as self-expression, a way allowing the world to see a glimpse of me.