The space between
structure and surrender
Every painting begins with tension — the same tension I have always lived inside. My work does not resolve the conflict between order and chaos. It inhabits it.
I build paintings in layers, returning to each work across days and weeks, adding and obscuring, until the surface holds the history of its own making. A figure emerges from abstraction. A geometric field fractures into something raw. The process is as much about what is buried as what is revealed.
A red line recurs across many of my works — a thread, a wound, a division, a signal. It means something different in each painting, but it is always intentional: the one element that refuses to disappear under the accumulation.
My subjects are mostly human: faces, bodies, myths, silhouettes. But I am less interested in representation than in psychological weight. The figures in my paintings carry something unresolved. They are not portraits of people so much as portraits of states — grief, longing, defiance, stillness before the storm.
Before I was an artist, I was an engineer and then a lawyer. Those disciplines shaped how I see things — structurally, adversarially, with attention to what is hidden beneath the surface. Music has been a parallel practice throughout, and it informs the rhythm of composition: the pacing of a painting, the tension before resolution, the moment that lands. I do not think these lives are separate. They converge in the work.
I paint because the canvas is the only place where none of those systems are in charge — and because, in the struggle between them, something honest tends to emerge.
C.V.
Education
B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering, Cum Laude, Arizona State University (1999)Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (2002)
Selected Group Exhibitions / Awards
"Gods & Monsters" Exhibition | 2025-2026 | Found:Re, Phoenix, AZ“Hot American Summer” Exhibition | 2025 | Found:Re, Phoenix, AZ
“Orange” Exhibition | 2025 | Found:Re, Phoenix, AZ
Monochrome Awards | International B&W Photography, Juried | 2018 | Honorable Mention
Dark Beauty X Magazine | Published Photo | 2017
Model Mayhem | First Place, Non-Nude Photography | 2017
“Art for HIV” | Juried Exhibition and Publication | 2016 | Phoenix, AZ
“Spellbound” Exhibition | 2015 | Night Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
“Discovery” Exhibition | 2013 | Martini Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ
“Lambchop” Exhibition | 2012 | Monarch Theater, Phoenix, AZ