BIO

I was born in a coastal community of California in the 60's, I was not really the brightest or best looking child, in fact, I was skinny with crazy crooked teeth, thick glasses and always dreaming (awake or asleep) and drawing (awake only). As a child I wanted to make images in any way possible from drawing to early experiments with 16 mm film. At the age of nine I began private studies in fine art. In 1987 I graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach later attending graduate school, first at Cornell then University of Pennsylvania where I received my MFA in Painting studying under and befriending Neil Welliver. In the early nineties I moved to New Orleans where my career as a painter took hold and I developed art programs for at risk children, writing grants and doing public works arts projects. In the mid nineties I began working with emerging digital mediums; again simply wanting to make images in any way possible. By 1999 I was creating art digitally as well as painting and drawing. Right now, I'm deeply involved in exploring digital time-based media reconnecting a traditional praxis in painting and making visual art with technology. The result is time-based and projected painting, installation and live digital. For over ten years, I’ve been creating and exhibiting work internationally.