From artist's website:

I was born in 1965 and raised in the lush green suburbs of northern New Jersey, in the halo of NYC and its cultural treasures, visiting the city at an early age and as often as I could. I graduated from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh while designing and art directing in a local advertising agency. After finishing my Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art and Design from Point Park College, I returned east to pursue theological studies at Alliance Theological Seminary. Master of Divinity in hand, I accepted an administrative position at the seminary, continuing to design on a freelance basis.

In 1997, I relocated to the American Southwest. The wide open sky and saturated colors captivated my spirit. Designing full time from my home office, I began painting abstract works as a way to transcend the flat, artificially perfect world inside the computer. Using my hands, once again, to manipulate real physical materials was just the needed catalyst for an explosion of light, color, and delectable texture.

I think the energy of life is a kind of random chaos. Each of us makes some semblance of meaning out of this raw material, attempting to impose order, rearranging, moving and combining ideas, events and people. We repeat, correct, update and edit the narrative of our histories.

We explore, affect, and move the present, overlaying what has come before. Living is a messy process. And this is my basic approach to creating work: chaos moves toward order, layer builds on layer, simplicity gives way to complexity. The disorderly and chaotic shapes, colors, and materials, over time, form a beauty, a logic, a composition arrived at, rather than aimed for; discovered and coaxed, rather than intended or forced.

Rather than my dictating what a painting is 'supposed to be,’ I'd rather the viewer be aware of what is occurring internally for them, what they bring to the piece at each viewing. Most of my work is intentionally non-objective, allowing the random, corralling the chaotic. Many iterations have been arrived at along the way, some lived with, modified, and each 'life' lived is incorporated into the final. Like an archeological dig, each layer of history informs the present composition.

My challenge to the viewer: connect with my work from a precognitive, nonverbal place; hold closure at bay; appreciate being in the moment with ambiguity.