Contemporary Landscape Painting Practice
Ongoing Studio Work | Painter & Visual Artist
Painting practice overview
My work explores the confluence of traditional landscape painting, contemporary visual culture and post-industrial concepts related to the natural world. The paintings feature idealized landscapes rendered through bold, vibrant colors and flat graphic treatment, embedded within gritty industrial surface textures. This formal approach creates a visual dialogue between commercial aesthetics and material processes, examining how nature is represented, commodified, and experienced in contemporary culture.
I earned my MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting. My work has been exhibited at the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg; I Space, Chicago; Kinz, Tillou and Feigen Gallery, New York; George Adams Gallery, New York; and the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago; Dudd Haus, Philadelphia; and mepaintsme, Asheville, among others. Works are held in private collections across the United States and Europe.
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