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I've been a resident of Austin, Texas for just over seven years. I was born in Schenectady, New York and raised in the Northeast. After high school, I left home and graduated with a Bachelor's of Fine Art from the Kansas City Art Institute.
After school, I painted furiously, showing in various galleries in New England before moving to Cork, Ireland for one year. Upon my return to America, I quit my job, visited Austin and never left.
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While in Austin, I have shared studio spaces with a wide variety of talented artists at the ArtHive, Blue Genie Art, and Bolm Studios. I have painted full time and shown regularly at various galleries and venues throughout Austin. To help pay the bills, I have taught painting and drawing classes from my studio, as well as worked on a wide variety of odd art jobs, including murals, animation, commissions, and some TV art production as well.
While my main focus has been my work on canvas, I have also curated and produced a variety of art shows in Austin. After putting together a series of 'Shoulda Been a Plumber' painting exhibitions, I teamed up with fellow painter Ian Shults The first show we put together was 'Will There Ever Be a Rainbow', more commonly known as the Unicorn Art Show. The following year we put on the 'Father's Day Art Show' at Bolm Studios, followed by the award winning, 'Radical Nautical' show at Gallery Lombardi in 2007.
We also put together the two gallery show 'Biblical Proportions' in April, 2009.
In 2007, I took a much needed break from painting to focus on a new medium, the graphic novel. Taking inspiration from the neighborhood in Austin I've lived in since my arrival, 'The Tales of the Really White Vigilante' was born - a superhero farce focusing on the gentrification of East Austin and the ever changing and developing city of Austin. The series is slated for four volumes, with the third book arriving in the summer of 2009.
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