Bio:

Born December 7, 1979. Lived in a great many places, but calls Minneapolis, MN home. Amongst the favorite places to live are: Seattle, North Adams, and now—Chicago. Enjoys using the term “alma mater” when referring to the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. IS a co-curator and founder of This is Not a Truck, a mobile art space. Makes mini-paintings and large paintings, fiberoptic collages, sewn blobby octopi, drawings, and scrabble words. Currently can be found riding bikes, drinking coffee, making art, and throwing stones.

About recent artwork:

As long as I have been making art my goal has been to build my personal iconography, and share it with others in a fairly narrative way. Recently, this path has lead me to consider existing religious imagery and archetypes. While I enjoy their aesthetics greatly, I feel the need to alter and recontextualize them for use in my own symbolic system. This is conveyed in a series of staged photographs of friends and family posing as saints, and the paintings derived from those images.