June 22 1973 Winter Park FL
Rollins College 1992-94
Brooks Institute of Photography 1995
University of Rochester 1998-99
Rochester Institute of Technology BFA 1999
Pure Paint, Pure Paintings, Paint Objects…
Pure acrylic paint: no fillers or additives.
Conceived and realized in 1997 as 1/8” and 1/4” thick rectangular shaped slabs, attached to clotheslines.
Have no necessary means of support.
Abstract to functioning/non-functioning utilitarian objects.
“It’s all been done” and “Painting is dead”
Simulations, reproductions, hyperrealization.
Purity.
Persons of Interest:
Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollack, John McCracken, Joan Mitchell, Peter Halley+Sherrie Levine(Neo-Geo), John M. Miller, Dan Flavin, Hans Haacke, Allan Kaprow, The CalArts Mafia, Ed Moses, Jeff Weiss, Hendrix, Van Halen, Joseph Campbell, Michel Foucault, Nick Bostrom, Daniel Dennett. John Searle, Stephanie Seneff.