Artist Statement

My paintings explore the slippery area between homo-social and homo-sexual, public and private, adventure and dolce far niente (pleasing inactivity). My engagement with 19th century painting as a specific art historical strategy provides an additional slippage between past and present.
I think of my paintings as short stories, mini-narratives that explore the notion of the “outing” – an intimate experience with friends, often a daytrip, which takes place out-of-doors. I address contemporary issues by leveraging traditional painting themes of leisure like boating, hunting and bathing, referencing American artists Homer, Eakins and Sargent and French painters Manet and Courbet.

EDUCATION
2008 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1988 BA, Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH

EXHIBITIONS
2009
Ratio3 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR
Lexington Club, curated by Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008
Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
18 Reasons, San Francisco, CA
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
MFA Exhibition, CCA, San Francisco, CA
PlaySpace, San Francisco, CA

2007
dba256 Gallery, Pomona, CA
Eagle Tavern, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
HardwareStore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2006
Café Royale, San Francisco, CA

AWARDS
2007
Cadogan Fine Art Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation