Born: in Palmer, MA ... January 1982

High School: Palmer High School ... May 2000

Undergrad: University Massachusetts Dartmouth - B.F.A., 2D Studies ... Dec 2004

Graduate School: Boston University - M.S., Arts Administration ... May 2009

Current Job(s):

1: Riverside Art ... Framing Dept (since Oct 2005)

2: Working artist

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Influences of my work (in random order):

Jim Dine's negative space, Michael Mazure's plate surfaces, everything Goya (especially the dark cynicism), everything Rembrandt, Redon's lithos and subject matter, Diebenkorn's figure drawings, Abstract Expressionist's process, Blake's Romanticism, Kathe Kollwitz's heart wrenching line, Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent

Honesty, absurdity, intellectualism, instinct, chance, levity