BIOGRAPHY

Born:   in Palmer, MA ... January 1982

High School:  Palmer High School ... May 2000

Undergrad:   Bachelor of Fine Arts ... University Massachusetts-Dartmouth ... Dec 2004 (suma cum laude)

Graduate School: Boston University - M.S., Arts Administration ... starting Fall 2007

Current Job(s):  1: Gallery Assistant at the C&W Gallery

                 2: Riverside Art ... Framing Dept
                 (as of Oct 2005)

                 3: Working artist

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Influences of my work (in random order):  Jim Dine's negative space, Michael Mazure's plate surfaces, everything Goya (especially the dark cynicism), everything Rembrandt, Redon's lithos and subject matter, Diebenkorn's figure drawings, Abstract Expressionist's process, Blake's Romanticism,  Kathe Kollwitz's heart wrenching line, Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent

Honesty, absurdity, intellectualism, instinct, chance, levity