Biography

Originally from Seattle, Washington, I started exhibiting art and photography in shows about a year ago and I was a finalist for Beautiful Bizarre Magazine's Emerging  Artist Award this last summer which I was pretty excited about.

Artist Statement

My artwork mainly focuses on society's interaction with women's bodies. We have a really wierd way of simultaneously over-sexualizing and under-sexualizing the female form leading to, among other things, bizarre double standards, and also a really wierd situation where the closer a woman gets to being nude, which is the natural state of the human body, the less people seem able to connect with them on a human level, because they have objectified them as either a sexual object or moral obstacle.

I employ a very high degree of realism and detail with an emphasis on faces and eyes because I found that if my artwork is very detailed and realistic, it tends to evoke a sense of childlike wonder in many people, which seems to revert them to a less “conditioned” mental state, wherein they often find themselves emotionally connecting with the subject regardless of how her body is depicted.

The goal is for people to be able to admire someone physically, while connecting with them on a human level, to help them reexamine the arbitrariness of some preconceptions, and to realize the beauty, sexuality, and humanity are not mutually exclusive attributes.

For any paintings, drawings, or sculptures I sell, the model depicted in it receives 20% of whatever I take home.