A juried group exhibition at the Art Center Sarasota. Sarasota, FL. 2024

Trompe L’oeil invited artists to create work centered around ideas of illusion, perception and reality. These artworks question reality and the aesthetics of realism. Trompe l’oeil forces the viewer to question what we see everyday and consider the boundary between the artist’s world and our own.

(photo courtesy of Carrie Johnson)
A group exhibition at the Atlantic Gallery in New York, NY. 2020.

In 1947, Mark Rothko wrote: “Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation…”

The artist makes the work and the viewer sees it consciously and unconsciously without knowing quite how.

A group exhibition at the Gutstein Gallery in Savannah, GA. 2020.

Hypothetical Function is a group show of objects and images by artists who interrogate utility in art, examining our relationship with and the function of aesthetics and design. From Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol, artists in the 20th century challenged what art is, its utility, and its potential to transcend material reality. Similarly, artists in Hypothetical Function explore notions of use, frivolity, and purpose in art, and how the participation of viewers has the potential to activate their works.

A solo exhibition at the Workshop Gallery in Vineyard Haven, MA. 2019.

Faking Pink Flowers is a solo exhibition organized around Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks. It re interprets the decisions made in that painting, stealing those greens that Raphael used in the landscape and pushing the idea of the word Pink as phenomenal. I dissected the symbol of the flowers by either using text to create my own circumstance for that element, or using the Camouflage paintings to induce a spiritual and/or hallucinatory blooming feel. I consider the whole show as one larger experience, hanging the figurative paintings next to the patterned work and layering each elements of the show. The contents of this masterwork are repurposed and extrapolated into an everyday point of view. My Dog is the Madonna in some paintings and the pink flowers can be duct-taped text in others.

A solo exhibition at the Workshop Gallery in Vineyard Haven, MA. 2018.

Represented by Galerie C.O.A. Montreal, QC. 2015.

Represented by Galerie C.O.A. Montreal, QC. 2015.

A group exhibition at Galerie C.O.A. in Montreal, QC. 2015.

A solo exhibition at the AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA. 2012.

Users is a show about illusion and the notion of beauty in painting. It creates a conversation between the memory bank of history and the experimentation of contemporary aesthetics. It is a didactic presentation that raises questions on beauty and art, rather than making declarations. It allows narrative to take on new forms according to the perceptual ebb and flow of an audience. I want the viewer to bring information to a painting in order to complete the experience.
* Note: The text element puts viewers in a position where they can become a part of the work. The “reader” becomes a performer of the piece and therefore intertwined with its compositional elements. This relationship also serves as the figurative element in some works.

A group exhibition at Mr. Beast Gallery in Savannah, GA. 2011.

A solo exhibition at the Richard Demato Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY. 2011.

A solo exhibition at the Little Beasts Gallery in Savannah, GA. 2011.