Throughout the Los Angeles neighborhoods the terrain is in constant flux, being dug up, destroyed and reconstructed. It is an indigenous part of the LA landscape. I incorporate a variety of materials that represent this landscape into my artwork such as tar, roofing cement, crushed glass, plaster, pumice and magnum rock. As well as incorporating the softer, more soothing materials that are aspects of the environment including the ocean , sand, and film transparencies which I hand pain† and mount on wood.



Having grown up in the South and living as an adult in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the urban landscape has been a central part of my life. Every city owns it’s own personality and aesthetic. The lush green hills and red clay dirt of Atlanta inspired my earthy connections to the landscape, while the raw, gritty and rather honest landscape of New York inspired my moody and weighty artwork. Chicago spawned a dark, turbulent and expressionistic environmentally influenced body of work, while San Francisco nurtured a very thoughtful and conceptually based landscape.



During my short time in Los Angeles, I have been fascinated yet repelled by the urban sprawl. There is an ironic darkness about the city, despite the constant, searing and often intense sunlight. It is also the only city I’ve ever lived in that has reinvented itself in such an extrreme and unstable manner in only a century. In my current body of work, I communicate the transparent nature of this town that is in perpetual flux.