The story so far...

BFA in Visual Arts from Colorado State, 1990, MA & MFA in Printmaking from University of Iowa, 1992-93.

Competitive, group, and solo shows and awards steadily through that period and through the mid-90s in Turkey, where I was teaching painting, printmaking, and mixed media focused on local materials at Uludag University in Bursa. I got to where I could speak Turkish well enough to teach my classes without translators. Long story.

Got married, took advantage of the dotcom boom to come to DC and switch from academics to IT consulting, became a parent, bought a split level colonial with a pool on a wooded acre in rural Virginia, fell out of love, back in and mutually, irrevocably, out again, divorced, sold the house during the pandemic, saw my son off to college, kept making art throughout, but not showing.

In July of 2024, after a lot of consideration, I walked away from my role as a director of a professional services at a very successful software product company to take up a full time studio practice, and have not looked back.

Between then and now, I have engaged in a daily studio practice and have been showing regularly in Northern Virginia venues, including the Stone Branch Center for the Arts and the Melissa Ichiuji Studio Gallery in Front Royal, and the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville. Selling more than enough to cover materials, but that’s not the point. The felt experience of a certain way of being in the world is the point.