Artist Statement

In my work, I’m conscious of time’s paradoxes — how what we’ve lost can exist so solidly in the present, while the present itself feels like it’s dissolving around us. My art expresses themes of impermanence and imperfection, of the yearning for connection, of the potency of inner life.

My mixed media paintings are composed of countless layers of hand-painted papers, combined with acrylic paint and textual and other found materials. Moving back and forth between intention and chance, I try to land the work in a place where hope and decay converge.

Bio

I’ve always longed for a creative life.

After leaving college with a degree in creative writing, I spent several years supporting myself with odd jobs while I labored over a bad novel. I finally chucked it and enrolled in law school, and, somehow, three and a half decades went by.

Even as a lawyer, I’ve been primarily interested in the creative process. This has meant, in the courtroom, using contrast and juxtaposition to disrupt clichéd thinking; summoning the power in particularity; leaning in to the yin-and-yang of intention and improvisation — all things with parallels in the studio.

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.” —Edgar Degas

I’ve long been drawn to abstraction. I love abstraction’s not-obviousness, its strange harmonics and ambiguity. More recently, I’ve been exploring abstracted realism. I’m enjoying using story more explicitly in my work. But even when I create a piece that’s deliberately narrative, my aim is that it will still satisfy Degas’s three requisites: some mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. And that it will leave enough unresolved that it can only be completed in the mind of the viewer.

Exhibitions & Selected Juried Art Fairs

2026 Show Schedule

  • Sculpture Garden Art Fair

    Sat., May 9th 10-6
    Sun., May 10th 10-5

  • Art-A-Whirl (Logan Park)

    Fri., May 15th 5-10
    Sat., May 16th 12-8
    Sun., May 17th 12-5

  • Edina Art Fair

    Fri., June 5th 12-8
    Sat., June 6th 10-7
    Sun., June 7th 10-5

  • Stone Arch Bridge Festival

    Sat., June 20th 10-7
    Sun., June 21st 10-5

  • Uptown Art Fair

    Fri., Aug. 7th 1-7
    Sat., Aug. 8th 10-6
    Sun., Aug. 9th 10-4

  • Edina Fall Into The Arts

    Sat., Sept. 12th
    Sun., Sept. 13th