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  • Knowledge and Wisdom

    Knowledge and Wisdom

    20x11", Oil on linen, 2015. SOLD. Awarded 10th place in the National Portrait Society of America's Members Only Competition in the Still Life Category

  • Passage of Time

    Passage of Time

    30x24", oil on linen, 2016.

  • Adventures in Purgatory

    Adventures in Purgatory

    20x12", oil on linen, 2015. Available

  • The Artist and His Muse

    The Artist and His Muse

    30x24", oil on linen, 2015. Available.

  • Form Follows Function

    Form Follows Function

    16x24", oil on linen, 2016.

  • The Fall of Chicken Little

    The Fall of Chicken Little

    64x40", oil on found photographic canvas, 2016. SOLD

  • The Tempest

    The Tempest

    30x42", oil on linen, 2016

  • LSD

    LSD

    43x34", oil on linen, 2015. SOLD

  • How Big is Big?

    How Big is Big?

    11x14", oil on linen board, 2014. Available.

  • Where is my Mind?

    Where is my Mind?

    11x14", oil on linen board, 2015. Available.

  • What Came First?

    What Came First?

    9x12 oil on canvas board, 2014, SOLD

  • What Comes Next

    What Comes Next

    9 x 12", oil on board, 2014. Available.

  • The Suitor

    The Suitor

    9 x 12", oil on board, 2013. Available.

  • Hang-ups

    Hang-ups

    9 x 12", oil on board, 2014. SOLD

  • The Confrontation

    The Confrontation

    11x14", oil on linen board, 2014. SOLD

  • Laughing at the Face of Death

    Laughing at the Face of Death

    9x12 oil on canvas board, 2013, SOLD

  • Donkey Bong

    Donkey Bong

    16x24", oil on linen, 2012. SOLD

  • Goodness and Grief 2

    Goodness and Grief 2

    9x12 oil on canvas board, 2014, SOLD

  • The Kiss

    The Kiss

    9x12 oil on canvas board, 2014, SOLD

  • Security Blanket

    Security Blanket

    8 x 10", oil on linen panel, 2012. Available.

  • Pedestals

    Pedestals

    16x32", oil on linen, 2010. SOLD

  • Bugged

    Bugged

    14x23", oil on linen, 2010. SOLD

  • Gossips

    Gossips

    12 x 16", oil on linen, 2011. Permanent Collection of Amazon Web Services, Herndon, VA.

  • Flying

    Flying

    22x28", oil on linen, 2012. Collection of Amazon Web Services, Herndon, VA.

  • Philosophy (An Allegory)

    Philosophy (An Allegory)

    23x20", oil on linen, 2010. Collection of Amazon Web Services, Herndon, VA.

My toy paintings mix the mundane with the sacred, kitsch with classical realism that is both an homage and satire of the past and present. Using cheap vinyl toys as stand-ins for live models, I create narratives from compositional dichotomies as well as from my own life experiences, posing questions on the value and meaning of humanist art and it’s role in contemporary society.