Artist Statement
Life often strikes me as a string of moments, like a series of film stills, in which we observe ourselves. I paint people experiencing these moments of profound self-awareness and growth; when the rest of the world drops away and we are left bare. My paintings have the visceral quality of memories or dreams, when the image is reduced to the essential, and the mood is what draws your focus, not the specific details. My subject matter comes from my own memories and experiences that feel in some way universal. I have found that certain kinds of settings tend to lead people inward, and to me the rural landscape is a nursery for the soul. My memories of growing up in Maine are a great source of inspiration. Though my subjects usually stand alone, I am less interested in loneliness than in the way being alone makes us feel most alive and connected to our true nature. Sometimes even being unhappy can have a certain beauty if it makes us experience things more intensely.
2002 Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2002 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania
2002 Thomas Eakins Memorial Award for figure painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2002 Thouron Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2001 Fellowship Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2000 Cecelia Beaux Portrait Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2000 Benjamin Lanard Memorial Award for collage, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2000 William Emlen Cresson Travel Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2000 Best Student Exhibitor- Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual
1999 Wexler Memorial Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Exhibitions
2006/05/04 Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA.
2006 Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ
2005/04/03/02 ArtistsÕ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Small Works Show, Harrison Street Gallery, Frenchtown, NJ.
2005 Annual Alumni Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005 ÒThe Academy at Penn,Ó Kroiz Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2003/02/01 Annual Small Oils Exhibition, The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA.
2001 Emerging Artists Show, ArtistsÕ House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2001 Regional Juried Exhibition, Art Forms Gallery, Manayunk, PA.
2001 Annual Art Show, Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, Villanova, PA.
2000 Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual, Philadelphia, PA.
2006 Mid-Atlantic edition of New American Paintings
2004 October issue of Dirt, www.dirtpress.com