My work maintains a precarious visual balance between my observed reality and figments from an imagined reality.

  Perception is always unique to the individual—the way five witnesses to a car accident could have five differing stories to the same event—and I’m simply fascinated with this power of the ambiguous. Dream images play a large role. They have an intangible quality, highly uncertain in meaning but usually striking in their visual presence.

  From a pool of imagery I omit what I deem unnecessary, usually suppressing visual cues from observable reality in order to remain true to the odd dimension of dream imagery. The point, for me, is making the intangible nature of my own perceptions more tangible in the form of a two-dimensional surface with stuff on it, creating a material presence that is quite substantial and affirming as an object existing in its own space. The finished painting is then free to be perceived and interpreted at will.

Selected Exhibitions

APRIL 2008	WT/AC Student & Faculty Show Amarillo Museum of Art • Amarillo, Texas
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007	OHMS Amarillo, Texas
OCTOBER 2007	12 × 12 Art Exhibition/Silent Auction Amarillo Museum of Art • Amarillo, Texas
OCTOBER 2006	12 × 12 Art Exhibition/Silent Auction Amarillo Museum of Art • Amarillo, Texas
JULY 2005	Amarillo League of Contemporary Artists Group Show Sunset Center • Amarillo, Texas
MAY 2005	Gallery 106 Amarillo, Texas
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2005	OHMS Amarillo, Texas
NOVEMBER 2004	Amarillo League of Contemporary Artists Group Show Panhandle Art Center • Amarillo, Texas
JUNE 2004	OHMS Amarillo, Texas
APRIL 2004	Amarillo League of Contemporary Artists Group Show Club Illuminati • Amarillo, Texas
FEBRUARY 2004	Clovis Community College Clovis, New Mexico

Education

DECEMBER 2003

Bachelor of Science in Art Education West Texas A&M University • Canyon, Texas