I paint figures, focusing on the little bits that obsess me...a little flab hanging over a waistband, ill-fitting shoes, underbites and exciting flags held in dainty orifices. Over the years this work has developed into piles...meat, junk and fruit constructed into heroic yet pathetic towers spattered with gloppy sauce. The work is absurd, grotesque and a bit brutal but I try to bring the viewer in with lush and glowing surfaces. Essentially the work is about human failure and weakness groomed and developed to be an asset.
EDUCATION School of the Art Institute of Chicago | BFA 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Prostrate | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Palpitating Remains | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Potatoland | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Sprawled Upside Down | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Chicago MDW Fair | participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago
Suggestivism | Grand Central Art Center, Santa Anna, CA
2010 Ripe: Juicy Contemporary Still-Life | SPAC Gallery, Seattle
ArtParis | participating artist with Bongout Gallery, Berlin
2009 Fleischelust | Bongout Gallery, Berlin
Gangbusters Plane Space, New York, NY
2008 Molluskkollectiv | Bongout Gallery, Berlin
Freak Wave | Gallerie Les Singuliers, Paris
2007 Don't Wake Daddy II | Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg
Group | Zg Gallery Chicago
2006 Bridge Art Fair | participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago
(Un)Natural History | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Don't Wake Daddy | Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg
Working Process | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago | participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago
Claw Your Face Off | Plane Space, New York, NY
2005 The Animal Within | Catherine Edelman, Chicago, IL
New Batch | Plane Space, New York, NY
Art Chicago | participating artist with Zg Gallery, Chicago
2004 Why Break The Spell? | Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
Group | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Compendium | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lurpious Showboat Follies | Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL
2002 Brilliant | Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
12 x 12 | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 An Amuse-Bouche | Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Suggestivism | published by Grand Central & Ginkgo Press
Chicago Reader, June 30 | cover
Viande de Chavet, issue 1 | published by United Dead Artists
2010 Chicago Tribune, January 15 | Lauren Vlera
NewCity Chicago, January 14 | Jason Foumberg
M Magazine, January | Linda Wellhausen
2009 Seattle Stranger, April 9 | cover
2008 Hi-Fructose, Issue 7 | Nathan Spoor
Lifelounge (Australia), Issue 12 | Katie Olson
Freak Wave: La Vague Scelerate | Olivier Allemane & Anne Van der Linden published by Orbis-Pictus Club, France
2007 Chicago Tribune, December 14 | Alan Artner
Empty (Australia) Issue 10 | Jess Scully
Artension (France) Issue 34 | Martin Rey
Mollusk #3 | published by Bongout, Berlin, Germany
2005 Time-Out Chicago, September 22 | Madeline Nusser
Chicago Tribune, September 16 | Alan Artner
Chicago Sun-Times, September 16 | Margaret Hawkins
New American Paintings, no.59 | curated by Dominic Molon
2003 Mouth to Mouth, issue 2 | Julie Farstad
Chicago Sun-Times, December 19 | Margaret Hawkins
Chicago Reader, December 5 | Fred Camper
Chicago Tribune, November 21 | Alan Artner
2002 Chicago Tribune, August 30 | Alan Artner
AWARDS/GRANTS
2004 Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP)
2000 Experimental Sound Studio Artist in Residence
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