about me

In addition to working as a graphic/web design artist for an educational nonprofit, I help run an art gallery, Kanon Collective, on Santa Fe Drive with my friends, David and Matt, and try to spend the remainder of my free time (ha) working in the basement of the gallery in my studio. Much of the work I do stems from my love of photography and working with digital art. I love the freedom of digital photography because I no longer have to worry about the cost of film and processing -- now I just take pictures of everything that catches my eye, and if I end up with three photos out of a hundred that look good, all I've wasted is a bit of hard drive space.

The process of creating many of my pieces involves transferring the photos onto surfaces using a heavy acrylic gel medium. I sometimes create textures and colors on the surface beforehand, that end up showing through the transferred photos. In addition, I also like to add different pigments, inks and found objects to the resin I use to coat the finished pieces. This creates a three-dimensional image that appears to float in the middle, often creating shadows through the crackle texture that happens as a result of the pigment in the photo paper reacting with the water in the acrylic gel. The final images end up not really looking like photographs at all and the image becomes the focus of the piece. I tend to gravitate toward images with bright colors and strong contrast, with subject matter ranging from flowers to graffiti to street signs.

I am also starting a new series focused on candy and creating three-dimensional sculptures with it on wood surfaces.

education

I received a Bachelor of Arts in Film from BYU and a Master's of Humanities from the University of Colorado at Denver, where I also taught for two years as an adjunct professor in the Multimedia department.

I currently reside in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in downtown Denver with an evil cat named Zoe, who seems to think there is something good to lick on the floor.