Greetings! I am a Newburgh, NY-based artist working in a range of traditional and digital media. From April to October, I travel around the state performing live caricature at outdoor events. During the remainder of the year, I focus on my studio practice. Prior to moving to the Hudson Valley, I lived in BedStuy, Brooklyn. Here I was profoundly influenced by the night lights of the city, as well as its chaotic layered history. I worked for eleven years as an Ornamental Ironworker, Local 580, working on projects such as Tower One, World Trade Center and Hudson Yards. Here, I was exposed to construction techniques at the same time that I was becoming incredibly enamored of the cracks and fissures in the streets and buildings. Therefore, I began to incorporate structural elements in the work, and developing peices as artifacts complete with ostensible signs of destruction and repair, emphasizing mark-making, physical stress, and durability. Though I continue to develop the Brooklyn work, lush and abundant trees, leaves, and endlessly forking branches are ever my muses.

Over the years, I have experimented with different directions. My inspirations shift like the wind from medieval illuminated manuscripts, to site specific earthworks, to historical animation. This website incorporates work done for clients as well as personal projects. Caricature has been my bread and butter off and on for most of my life. This art form gives me great joy, as it allows me interact with hundreds of strangers during the Summer - a welcome foil to my monk-like Winter studio life. I was trained to draw humans in this way at amusement parks years ago, and it has been the greatest blessing. In 2019, I quit my job as an Ironworker, and began graduate study at City University of New York, Brooklyn. This experience was revelatory, as I was afforded an enormous amount of studio space, and the program provided impetus to spin in different directions and generate copious amounts of work. This time gave rise to “Felcanography”, an epistolary body of work based on a narrative poem. I continue to work on this project as well, as my graduate work was derailed by the pandemic in 2020.