These larger paintings are based on photographic references from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. They are a follow-up series to the Natural History paintings, showing more compositional experimentation, but similar handling of light.

The setting is a cluttered bedroom. The figures have been reduced in size relative to their surroundings. As the viewer enters the scene a new paradigm is created for understanding the psychological interior of the figures.

Science and Industry (2008 - 2011)

11 paintings

Discard U.S.A. (2007)

6 paintings

I started grinding my own oil paint. Process and unpredictability. The paintings started as ink drawings of ballerinas in slums. Those were scanned into the computer and painted in photoshop. Those were printed and glued to boards.

These paintings have the American Museum of Natural History as their setting. They were initially inspired by St. John of the Cross's book "Dark Night of the Soul" and Odillon Redon's drawings of the insides of cathedrals.

10 paintings

6 paintings

Each of these women represents a different person in the Holy Trinity; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

These smaller paintings are based on, and intended to illustrate, Campus Crusade for Christ's evangelical tract on the "Four Spiritual Laws."

3 paintings

4 paintings

These paintings were made, without photographic references, in 2001, between when I finished college and started graduate school, while I lived with my Grandparents in Oneonta, Upstate NY.

In the summer of 2000, my brothers and some friends came and posed for me in the basement where I grew up. My interest in the painter Lucian Freud is evident.

7 paintings

6 paintings

A collection of the work I've made recently for my portrait painting business. Many of these are commissions that are painted from photographs.

I have random urges to make abstract paintings. Some of these interweave imagery from old masterpieces with responsive layers of abstraction. Others are more purely non-objective.

18 paintings

9 paintings

Some of these drawings go back at least ten years. Many of them are figure studies, made while in graduate school at the New York Academy of Art. The lighter hand studies are some of my favorites (Thanks to Stephe Halker for the coaching!).

Each of these is painted on site, taking around two hours to make. There nothing else like standing inside a landscape, attempting to wrestle a story about it onto the canvas.

88 drawings

12 paintings