ARTIST BIO & ARTIST STATEMENT I was born in Cleveland, Ohio and spent the first 24 years of my life trying to be the best Catholic I could be. After leaving my studies for priesthood, I went on to become an ice cream delivery man, global vagabond, fast food assistant manager, and foster care specialist. In 2002, I moved to the Willamette River watershed, where I earned a masters in art therapy and became a licensed counselor in Oregon. I now paint, draw, sing, cook, read, and sleep in southeast Portland – along with 3 chickens, 2 cats, and 1 husband. As both a counselor and artist, I am deeply interested in exploring relationships – between living beings, between me and my artwork, between created forms within the artwork, and between the art materials themselves. While I have the skills to make “realistic” images, I choose to create organic abstraction that occasionally hints at representation. For me, abstract art envisions the non-observable world, and through shape, line, color, and space, my work aims to connect with that power and to examine what it means to be in relationship with another. SELECTED SHOWS Solo Show – Radish Underground, March-April 2009 EDUCATION Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR - MA Art Therapy 2004 CONTACT ME Want to receive news of my upcoming events?
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