BIO

On July eighteenth of 2008 I was hit from behind in my car while stopped at a light by a sixteen-wheel truck carrying a full payload. I sustained a concussion that put me into a post-concussive state. I’ve been undergoing nearly a yearlong recovery.

Born along the coast of California, as a child all I wanted to do was make images in any way possible from drawing to early experiments with 16 mm film. By nine I began private studies in drawing that I continued until sixteen. I attended California State University Long Beach and graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting. My first year of graduate school was at Cornell then the University of Pennsylvania where I received my MFA in Painting.

In nineteen-ninety in New Orleans my career as a painter took hold. In my traditional paintings and drawings I’m interested in creating pictorial narratives. In the mid-nineties I began to experiment with emerging digital mediums: still wanting to make images but seeking a way to truly transition from fixed medium to one that exists in time.

My interest is in the relation between traditional studio art and digital time-based media lies in reconnecting a traditional praxis in painting with technology. The result is Time-Based projected paintings, installation, live digital performances and visualization. I actively write and publish theories on time-based painting and working in a Time-Based Medium as well as critically examining how New and Time-Based Media affects our culture. Currently, I reside in Maine, where I am a tenured professor at the University of Maine maintain a studio in Portland Maine.