My work moves between painting, performance, video, and drawing to develop narratives that investigate ideas of death, youth, failure, home and nostalgia.

Through performances I incorporate myself, or variations of myself, in fabricated characters (a herald of doom/death, a high school girls' basketball coach, a heavy metal teenager), to communicate observations of the shortcomings I have experienced or witnessed in my life. I use my personal experiences in order not to seem overly didactic, and to keep the element of sincerity active in the pieces. Humor is also an element present in my performances. I find that it disarms the viewer, and makes the art viewing experience a less intimidating one.

Painting inspires me as much as performance, and I give myself the freedom to use aspects of both methods to execute my ideas. Some performances use a painting as a backdrop (via green screen) to create a realm in which I develop characters. Both the painting and the finished video exist separately but can also exist together to inform one another. Other performances are live, and engage the physical world by injecting characters and their actions into an actual setting.

The protagonists of the performances possess a dual nature. A girls' basketball coach is also a failed artist; a herald of doom/death is also a fisherman. The artist as a balding man is also a teacher, or a police lieutenant. I seek to subvert the expected actions and defining traits that accompany the viewer's initial impressions of the character. This allows the character to transcend from a stereotype into someone with whom the viewer can empathize.