• BFA Rhode Island School of Design, 2004, Illustration
• MFA Indiana University, 2009, Painting

Teaching Interests

Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Contemporary Art

Course Regularly Taught

• ARTS 153A - Introduction to Painting
• ARTS 152A - Drawing: Learning to See
• ARTS 256/356 - Painting: The Contemporary Figure (Power, Privilege, and Diversity course)

Research Interests

I use flat shapes and simple forms to compartmentalize space into different surfaces, hiding spots, and barricades.  I am interested in how the crude artifice of spatial illusion - the fakery of it - can be used to hide more rather than less, a seemingly wider range of frequencies packed into a smaller, simpler encounter.

Selected Awards

• 2023 - (upcoming) Residency, Pada Studios, Barreiro,Portugal
• 2021 - New American Paintings Midwest issue #155
• 2018 - Residency and Stipend, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
• 2016 - Residency, Si Shang Museum, Beijing, China
• 2013 - Residency and Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
• 2008 - Louis Mcnutt Fellowship Grant, Indiana University
• 2008 - Della Fricke Teaching Award, Indiana University