Fine Art Portfolio

My Fine Art body of work is just as varied as my post colliegate career. I have primarily stayed in the realm of Painting, Drawing, and Photography. I have lived in Rome, Italy, Cleveland, OH, Catskill, NY, Orlando, FL and my original hometown of Little Rock, AR. My art reflects my connections to all of the places I have been. I love abstraction and plein air landscape work.

In Cleveland, I got my Masters in Physics and Entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve University. In Cleveland, I rented space at Artful Cleveland, which was a converted elementary school for artists and exhibitors. They have since moved to another location after leaving Cleveland for Orlando, FL, where I went to pursue my masters in Game Design. The space I rented there allowed me to connect with a lot of really cool artists at the time and I really could see working artists sharing work and bouncing ideas off each other.

As a quick timeline,

May 2016 - Bard College Graduation

Summer 2016 - Rome Art Program experience

Summer 2016 - Summer 2017 - Catskill, NY

Summer 2017 - End of 2019 - Cleveland, OH.

After I moved away from Cleveland to pursue my career in Game Design, I had thought that my potential as a fine artist had all but evaporated. I had internalized toxic thoughts that my art simply wasn’t worth it. That there were better careers to pursue. This is where my after COVID my forays in to Fine Arts came in sporadic burps and spurts, and I actively hid that side of my career from my friends, family, and coworkers, thinking it it would never be relevant ever again in my life. And I couldn’t have been more wrong. After battling the depression caused by repressing this side of my personality, I know I am ready to continue to grow as an emergent artist.

Here is my fine arts resume, linked.

  • Rome Art Program Weekly Display. During my Residency in 2016, I would present my work weekly to everyone. This is the wall of all of my art I produced in ONE Week. The middle one SOLD at Auction!

  • View of San Pietro from Giardino d'Arancia, Acrylic on Paper Composite, approx. 25" x 35"

  • Charcoal sketch from Villa d'Arancia, Charcoal on paper

  • Nocturne at Piazza San Pietro

  • Charcoal study of Piazza San Pietro, charcoal on watercolor paper, approximately 24" x 36"

Catskill NY

After graduating from Bard College, I owned and operated a personal studio in Catskill, NY. On display in the lower image are two of four mural sized canvasses I made for my undergraduate thesis project that blended Abstraction and Cartography into monumental canvases, documented in the next section.

Undergraduate Thesis at Bard College

  • Gallery view of Senior Thesis gallery show

  • The Hudson River Valley, Mixed Media on Canvas, 5' x 6'

  • Chicago, Mixed Media on Canvas, 5' x 6'

  • Detail of Chicago

  • New York City, Mixed Media on Canvas, 5' x 6'

  • Detail of New York City

Explorations with Abstract Drawings

  • Abstraction, Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper, approx 20" x 30"

    This swirling mass of lines and hatchings were such a fun exploration of line and form, which was an evolution on my earlier work on abstract cartography.

  • Detail of Abstraction

  • Line Study, Mixed Media on Paper, 11" x 14"

  • Line Study, Mixed Media on Paper, 11" x 14"

  • Line Study, Mixed Media on Paper, 11" x 14"

The Quantum Book

  • Companion Piece to the Quantum Book, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 36"

    Companion Piece to the Altered book I created. This image combines imagery from the Cosmic Microwave Background onto the imagery from the Chartes Cathedral in Paris.

  • The Quantum Book

    This altered book was created from an antique monograph of the Chartes Cathedral in France. The book’s spine disintetgrated over its age and I thought that the book demanded an artistic investigation. I made sure to seal every page in clear acrylic to respect the age and delicate nature of the book’s contents. Since I was pursuing an advanced physics degree, and studying carefully the antithesis of certainty that Quantum Mechanics affords and how that contrasts with a worldview of certainty that religions provide.

  • Detail of the Quantum Book Cover

    The formula is Schrodinger’s Equation, which is a fundamental description of a particle’s behavior.

  • Detail of the Reverse Side of the Quantum Book

    The formula presented on the back of the altered book is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle. It means that everything, including the most certain and basic of conclusions always has some error.

  • Detail image of a page exerpt

  • Detail image of a page exerpt

  • Detail image of a page exerpt

  • Detail image of a page exerpt

Landscape Photography

  • Frozen Waterfall in Kaaterskill State Park c. March 2017

  • Journey's End at Olana State Park, Olana State Park, NY

  • Goodbye Bard College Pt 1

  • Goodbye Bard College, Part 2

  • Evening by the Lake in Austin