I am a contemporary abstract artist who has spent my life between the worlds of the Southwest (New Mexico and Arizona) and New York City. After graduating high school, I spent eight years in military and then worked as a carpenter and a bass player in New York City while getting my Associates Degree in Studio Art at The Bronx Community College. I relocated to New Mexico in 2002 where I continue to play the bass and paint, while frequently visiting my family in New York City. 

In my early work I experimented widely with styles themes and techniques, which have culminated in my current mixed-media paintings that combine images from growing up in the two worlds of New Mexico and New York City. My work as a musician makes me comfortable with an improvisational approach to working with an initial melody-like line and then following the images that arise from canvas. My style combines contemporary styles in a unique idiosyncratic style, which combines influences from Paul Klee to Cy Twombly to Jean-Michel Basquiat, and are also influenced by my many years as a musician as well as my beginnings as a graffiti artist in NYC.

This playful style is shown throughout my work and has reached a new level in my current work, beginning with my “Hummingbird Series” in which the hummingbirds inhabit both southwest and east coast environments. This lyrical bent is also shown in the painting “Virga,” which attempts to capture the monsoons and lightning storms of the late summer in the southwest, I also work on introspective studies of my own internal life and relationships using portraiture and self-portraits to project an emotional state of mind.
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Finally, all of this comes together through improvisation which allows me to "forget” but still use skills and techniques accumulated over the past 20 years, and make the intuitive connections which give expression to those underlying thoughts and feelings I have about myself and the world around me. To paraphrase the mystic poet Kabir, who was speaking about music, “[Making art] means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is [beauty]."