I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Michigan State University, with a specialization in painting. As long as I can remember I have always love art, and wanted to pursue it. I was born in 1988 and began art when I was young. My mom would sit and draw with me, which progressed from looney tunes and various comic book characters to drawing friends and other people. Through out high school I really only focused on drawing, after joining the arts program at MSU I realized that I needed to branch out. I focused on drawing, ceramics and painting, knowing that I would more than likely end with painting. I've been in various shows and won multiple awards, and now I can't wait to see what comes next. 

BEING HUMAN: A Solo Exhibition

            What does it mean to be human? This is the fundamental question that drives my work.  To understand who we are, we must first look at what we are. The first stages of my work dealt strictly with the anatomical study of the human form. The early works examined the ways that the multiple systems of the body came together to form a singular entity. Finding how these systems grew from the skeletal to the integumentary that is to say from the bones to the skin, led me to the next stage of the work.  Stepping away from the strictly physical reference of the human body, I began to look into the metaphysical sense of who we are.

The order to how the systems of the bodies grew on top of each other became a device to define what it means to live and be human. Through our choices and experiences we begin to build who we are, the same way the systems of the body build upon one another. The skeleton is the identical foundation for everyone. As the muscles of the body and skin begin to form, the character of the individual is revealed. Most of us find ourselves somewhere in the many stages of personal growth, those on the lower end are the basic skeleton as they are dead inside, while those who take advantage of life are simply depicted as themselves. As we are constantly transforming, our place in this spectrum can always change, for better or worse. Our search for individuality is innately human and inevitably it comes down to our choices and experiences that shape who and what we are. To find our individuality we must all look internally and ask ourselves what it means to be human?