"I wonder what the poor bunnies are doing this season?"

- Bugs Bunny

Media: Painting and Digital Media

My work generally alternates between real world projects and digital media. On one hand, I enjoy working digitally because of the immediacy that the medium provides. A multitude of colors, brushes and textures are a click away.

With digital, everything can be manipulated. I have an opportunity to take bigger chances with a piece because any changes I make can easily be undone. I find this way of working very freeing.

On the other hand, there is no substitution for using paint on a canvas to create an image that speaks to the viewer. There is something satisfying about physically creating something tangible.

Lately, I have been melding these two approaches to my work into one. Things that I have created in the real world get transferred into the digital one, where I can continue to work on it and publish it throughout the web.

As for the subjects of my work, I think that simple imagery has the ability to deal with serious subject matter. By taking something out of its real world context, you can deal more with ideas instead of specific situations that carry real world baggage. The simpler the image, the more universal it is.

Sometimes, I just paint what's fun.

2009
04/25/09 - "Big Bang" - F8tl Studio San Marcos, Tx

Sketchbook Project 3
02/27/09 - Art House Gallery - Atlanta, Georgia
03/03/09 - Museum of Contemporary Art DC - Washington D.C.
03/04/09 - Chris' Jazz Cafe - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
03/06/09 - Laconia Gallery - Boston, Massachusetts
03/08/09 - Antena Gallery - Chicago, Illinois
03/11/09 - Soulard Art Market - St. Louis, Missouri
03/13/09 - 3rd Ward - Brooklyn, NY
04/02/09 - Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) - Atlanta, Georgia
05/01/09 - June 20 - Chicago Art Source Gallery - Chicago, Illinois

2008
12/12/08 - 12/29/08 - Canvas Project.
09/27/08 - Put a piece in the self portrait show at the Austin Figurative Gallery.

2007
“Gimme Shelter” – A national traveling group show where all benefits go to The National Coalition for the Homeless. All work was done on cardboard. Three pieces, "Someone Help", "Help", "Untitled" Acrylic and ink on cardboard. Show stops include:
02/16/2007 - 02/23/2007 193c Brooklyn, NY
02/19/2007 - 02/26/2007 Dean Johnson Gallery Indianapolis, IN
03/19/2007 - 03/24/2007 Anno Domini San Jose, CA
04/28/2007 - 05/05/2007 Thinkspace Gallery Los Angeles, CA
05/15/2007 - 05/31/2007 Monkeyhouse Toys Los Angeles, CA
06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007 COMPOUND Portland, OR

2006
"Houston, Are You Board?" – A group show benefiting the Central Houston Skatepark. Two nights November 3rd at Commerce Street Art Warehouse and November 11th at Mackey Gallery. Entered one piece. "Lost" Acrylic and Paint Marker on skateboard deck.

2002
LCC Alumni Show – Invited to participate in a group show of LCC alumni.

2001
“Get up and Go” – Exhibited three pieces in the Southwest Texas Senior show.

1999
LCC student show.
Part of the group commissioned to paint two murals for a festival that would later become the Jamboozie.

1998
“Versus” – Second group show of the art group Modern Primitives at the Casa de Cultura in Nuevo Laredo.

2004-2005
Associate in Applied Science, Cum Laude
Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX.
Concentration in Web and Multimedia

2000-2001
B.F.A in Studio Art
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Concentration in Painting.

2000
Associate in Art, Cum Laude
Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX
Concentration in Painting.