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Animals
About these paintings Animals are our friends and muses. Cats have long figured in art. In Egypt, they were associated with the goddesses Isis and Ba’at, the jaguar in Mesoamerican culture is a spirit...
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People
About these paintings My education as a painter is rooted in the figure so it is always something that I return to. Several of these portraits are commissions or people that I know. Others are based...
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Painting Delilah’s
2004 In 2003 I was working on graduating from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, waiting tables, and beginning to show my art. Mike Miller, owner of Delilah’s, saw some of my bar scene...
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Works on Paper
About these paintings I started using watercolors in 2009. Initially, this move was driven by a commercial impulse to produce affordable work that I could make and sell more quickly. I was also...
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Urban Landscapes
About the paintings The urban landscape is always in flux. Like a time-lapse film of progress, we see buildings torn down to be replaced with newer, bigger constructions. Graffiti tags an empty lot,...
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El Tracks & Stations
Riding the Rails Chicago’s El Tracks have a distinct sense of place and history. The overhead tracks are old, rusted, with layers of paint, graffiti, posters, and garbage. Having to run to catch or...
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Fast Food Joints
Fast and Cheap Fastfood restaurants present a visual and psychic duality that I find interesting to paint. They promise to fulfill the basic human needs of food and human company but in actuality they...
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Houses
Subject to Change: Urban Landscape and the Architecture of Place From our earliest efforts to communicate who we are by drawing our “home”, the square with the triangle on top, home is an archetypal...
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