2006Space/Vision/ Perception Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
2005Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004Journeys II, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003Drawings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001Lost Landscapes, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2009Trouble in Paradise, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2009Fast Forward: Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2008Future Tense: reshaping the landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2008Looky See, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2008Apocalypse Yesterday, Claremont Graduate University,Pomona, CA
2007Ultrasonic International II, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
2006F[acts]igures, Artwalkamsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, SM, CA
2005Fineline, New Drawings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004Armory Art Fair, New York, NY
2004Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
2003Road Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2003Abstacted, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002Snapshot, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2002Flat Files Rendez Vous, Post vs. Pierogi Gallery, Post, Los Angeles, CA
2001Auxiallary Settings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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New American Paintings: MFA Edition. 2000
2005Art Omi Residency
2000Abrams Prize, University of California, Santa Barbara
1999Levitan Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
1999KCBX Graduate Art Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
1997Ohio University, BFA in Painting
My interest in the intersection between actual, physical landscape and mental landscapes, coupled with recent world events, led me to reflect on the ruins of war and the human impact wars leave behind on landscape.
In my recent work, modernist, constructivist methods of rearranging pictorial space are used to reflect on the scars that wars have left behind, mentally and physically, but also the way that landscape and nature heal these scars and how the events and people who created them become forgotten. I have titled this body of work “Lost Edge.” I use the word “edge” because I draw a comparison between the notion of the avant-garde in war and the art world. In the early 20th Century, the avant-garde was at the height of its importance in both realms. Now, however, I maintain that just as the concept of the military avant-garde has been “lost,” because of changes in methods of warfare, the avant-garde in the contemporary art world, has also lost its edge.
The source material for this body of work is images of ruins of the once mighty fortifications of the Mannerhiem Line, built to protect Finland from the advances of the Soviet military avant-garde. Finland’s attempt was valiant, by in vain; this war and the lives that were lost in 1939 are largely forgotten. The fortification lie in ruins, and nature is slowly reclaiming them. Similarly, the “cutting edge” of the contemporary art world seems to have become blunted. Viewers of the avant-garde work of many visionary artists of the early 20th Century were shocked, challenged and inspired by The Malevich’s Black Square and The Urinal of Marcel Duchamp. Because of changes in society, like changes in warfare, it has become difficult for today’s contemporary artist to generate the same level of response without resorting to vulgarity.






































































































