Trained as a child protective services social worker, I consider my artistic process an extension and integration of my social service practice, where disparate elements combine to reflect the contradictions, failures, and “make-do” operations that shape our daily lives. Additionally, my practice also involves directing and organizing 325 Project Space, an unpredictably, periodic exhibition and event space located where I live and work in Ridgewood, Queens, NY. Increasingly, I pay more attention as to how encounters shape and define our community environment with appropriate meaning and cultural force. Drawing inspiration from the surroundings of Ridgewood, I work within the materiality of objects and images which are both inherited and created. The methods I employ often reflect a commitment to material vernaculars associated with contingency, negation, and loss.
My sculptures and drawings have been featured in both national and international exhibitions, including White Columns, Artists Space, The Drawing Center, The Brooklyn Museum and the Queens Museum of Art in New York and Dunker Kulturhus in Helsinborg, Sweden. Most recently his was featured at the Chris Sharp Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.