Click here for a recap of the opening night reception of my recent exhibition, Visceral Desires, at KORE Gallery in Louisville, KY. The exhibition was on view from June 4–July 5, 2026.
Figurative
My primary work is figurative and rooted in Expressionism, drawing inspiration from artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Condo, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, and Cy Twombly. Influenced by the visual immediacy of street art, Naïve Art, and Pop Art, I use bold color, loose gestural mark-making, assertive line work, and mixed media processes to construct layered, emotionally charged compositions. Through fragmented and psychologically tense representations of the male figure, I explore masculinity, desire, intimacy, vulnerability, and human connection through the lens of my experience as a gay man. The male form remains central to my practice—often distorted, compressed, or emotionally charged—as a means of examining both personal and collective experiences of identity, selfhood, and belonging.
Animals
I continue to explore masculinity through the physical presence and symbolic weight of animal forms. Rendered with a heightened sense of realism, structure, and detail, these figures maintain an expressive, layered quality that connects them to my broader practice. The animals are depicted outside of their natural environments, positioned against raw, abstract surfaces informed by urban textures and gestural mark-making.
Abstracts
Through abstract painting, I explore texture, accumulation, and transformation through sustained engagement with the canvas. Working with acrylic, oil, collage, and plaster, I build surfaces through thin washes, pours, drips, and stains of paint that are repeatedly reworked as the image evolves through a balance of intention and material unpredictability. As layers accumulate and erode, color, gesture, and texture emerge through direct physical interaction with the surface as it dries. The palette and material sensibility draw from a masculine register, expressed through earth tones, rusted hues, and mineral-based colors associated with industrial landscapes and natural elements, forming compositions that hold an emotional language rooted in atmosphere, memory, and physical sensation.
Urban
Sediments
In Urban Sediments, I construct layered collages on mixed media grounds that evoke the weathered surfaces of the city. Working from personal photographs of urban textures collected across multiple cities over time, I tear, abrade, and stain each image so that fragments appear accumulated, eroded, and in flux. This process mirrors the physical and temporal layering of the built environment, where traces of use, neglect, repair, and disappearance continually reshape the urban surface. By extracting and reframing overlooked details from the everyday city, the work considers how place and memory are constructed, obscured, and worn away, revealing the quiet sedimentary beauty and natural abstraction embedded in what is typically ignored.
Cultural
Sediments
In Cultural Sediments, I construct layered collages on painted grounds that evoke the weathered surfaces of urban walls. Working with repurposed vintage gay adult magazine imagery, I tear, abrade, and stain each element so that figures emerge in states of partial erosion—marked by time, environment, and cycles of removal. This process mirrors the accumulation and decay of cultural memory, tracing shifting ideals of masculinity within the gay community and the persistent nostalgia attached to earlier archetypes of the idealized male body. By translating once-private images of desire into surfaces that recall public urban remnants, the work considers how identity, beauty, and history are continually constructed, circulated, and worn away.
Guerrilla
Pop Art
This series (originally called Guerrilla Blocks) is the loose, playful counterpart to the paintings I'm better known for — born out of a creative slump during the Covid era. Drawing on my background as a graphic designer, each piece begins as a digital collage of found and personal imagery — manipulated, printed, and wheat-pasted onto a repurposed surface to mimic the look of street art. The results are fun, affordable, one-of-a-kind pieces that celebrate pop culture, nostalgia, gay iconography, and just plain weirdness. Over 300 blocks have been created so far, sold mostly through a local boutique shop in Louisville, KY.