I was born in LaSalle-Peru, Illinois in 1974. We moved west to Arizona, via Texas in the early 1980’s. I started painting at age 12 in Houston. After moving to Arizona in 1987, I stayed primarily focused on theatre and art.

I am trained in classic 2D and 3D studio art, but when introduced to photo-collage and California Assemblage movement my junior year of high school, I shifted away from oil painting and printmaking, to mixed media and experimental motion picture. After four years at McClintock High, I had compiled a studio art portfolio that earned me 12 college credit hours and acceptance to several art schools, including Parsons, Columbia College and Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Unable to finance the cost of private art school, I accepted an art scholarship to the local community college. I created visual and art for raves and after finishing my film program at SCC, began work on movies professionally. My first big project as a grip was Dr. Dre and Ice Cube’s Natural Born Killas music video. This led me to employment as a motion picture set laborer, which provided a stable income and the environment to thrive as an artist.

After hearing from colleagues about the Low-Cost Artisan Utopia American expats had created in Prague, I decided to briefly live in the Czech Republic in 1995. What I met in Prague were con artists and lonely English teachers looking for drinking partners. While living in Prague, I mingled with other expatriates, photographed the landscapes and contributed short stories to the English speaking literary magazine Optimism.

I returned to downtown Phoenix the spring of 1996 and began creating art based on the photographs I took in Prague. I expanded on the photocopy collage technique I discovered in high school and improved upon it by adding recycled theatrical lighting filters I salvaged at the end of film and theater productions. Aside from my experimental films and photo-montages, these mixed media fine artworks represent the bulk of my portfolio.

My first significant exhibition in this media and technique, was at the Memorial Union Gallery at Arizona State University in May 1996, followed by the Swirling Daze: Multimedia Arts Extravaganza, in the Fall of ’96, an arts festival I produced and curated, that commenced four years in a row at the Alwun House, in downtown Phoenix. In addition to myself, the shows featured several prominent Phoenix area artists and helped establish their careers.

In 2001, my photomontage series My Love Affair With Barbie captured global attention, both in galleries and on the internet, becoming one of the web’s first viral memes and selling several editions to collectors internationally. I further explored digital photomontage with the witty Patriot Action Figures collage, which unveiled at Aldo Castillo Gallery, Art at War exhibition in Chicago on September 19th, 2004.

In 2002, I returned to London exhibiting at The Global Cafe in London‘s trendy Soho art district (adjacent to Saatchi & Saatchi in Golden Square). In 2003, the portrait of Andy Warhol I created was acquired by Musee Artcolle, the international center for the documentation of the art of collage and assemblage, in Plemet, France.

Since 2007, I have been occupied primarily in motion picture and multimedia production and continue to exhibit art globally. In 2010, I co-produced Lighthouse Lane, an experimental film which won five 2012 LA Movie Awards, including best experimental film. In addition to providing me both physical and topical material for my artwork, my proximity to the film production community offered me the opportunity to make cameos on popular network television programs like NCIS, Westworld and The Last Tycoon.

In 2017 I celebrated a 25-year retrospective exhibition at Exchange Room Gallery at UCLA, in February 2017. Followed by an expanded exhibition of my work, at Tempe History Museum, May of 2017.

In July of 2018 I became one of the resident video artists at FOUND:re Hotel and Conference Center Downtown Phoenix.

Currently, I’m promoting Decentered, a conspiracy thriller short film based on a television series created by fellow SCC alum, Brian Paul. I co-wrote, produced and directed the proof of concept short and currently represent the property in pitches with production companies in Hollywood.

With the professional assistance of local curator, Nicole Royse, I am thrilled to announce the unveiling of my latest series, Absolutely Wright, in Scottsdale 2019. Created on the backs of drafting drawers discarded from Frank Lloyd Wright‘s studio, Taliesin West, this series is a bonafide tribute to Wright, and perfect example of my mastered craftsmanship. These collages capture the essence of Wright’s works, crafted from engineering prints and discarded theatrical lighting filters, painstakingly composed onto to the backside of the very drawers that held Wright’s original architectural drafts.