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Education and Training 

2020

Teaching Artist Institute, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO. 

Certified Coach, Coach Training EDU, The International Coaching Federation.  

2016
B.L.A. focus in Medicine. University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, MO. 

Solo and Two-Person Shows

Pattern Mining, The Gallery at University City Library, St. Louis, MO. 

(forthcoming TBA, COVID delay originally scheduled for April 2020) 

New Work, Renaissance Airport Hotel,  St. Louis, MO. 

(forthcoming TBA, COVID delay originally scheduled for May 2020) 

2019
Chasing Chaos Continued, (with Greg Edmondson), Osage Art Center, Belle, MO. 

Chasing Chaos (with Greg Edmondson), The Stone Spiral Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

La Mancha Coffeehouse, St. Louis, MO.
PT’s Coffee at The Crossroads, Kansas City, MO.
Perceptual Defects, The Stone Spiral Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

Group Shows

2020

The Exhibition XXXVI, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO. 

Skate Deck Show, 4 Hands Brewery, St. Louis, MO. 

Creatures II, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Life Interrupted, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO. 

Global Cultures, Manchester Arts, St. Louis, MO.
Winter Exhibition, Angad Arts Hotel, St. Louis, MO.

Wall Ball Artist, Third Degree Glass Factory, St. Louis, MO. 

Spring Reception, Artisans In The Loop, St. Louis, MO. 

2019
Dance of Furious Joy, Artica, St. Louis, MO.
Featured Artist, UnColor Wine Bar & Gallery, Hermann, MO.
Warm Soda Launch Show, The Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL. 

Wall Ball artist, Third Degree Glass Factory, St. Louis, MO
Steampunk, The Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
Driven To Abstraction, The Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

2018
Dia De Los Muertos, Thomas Dunn Learning Center, St. Louis, MO. 

Sababa Arts & Cultural Festival Juried Art Fair, St. Louis, MO. 

Mississippi Epiphany, Artica, St. Louis, MO.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Thomas Dunn Learning Center, St. Louis, MO. 

Art In Motion, Manchester Arts, St. Louis, MO.
Everything Blue 2, Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
Global Cultures, Manchester Arts, St. Louis, MO.
Featured Artist, Rise Float Community Gathering, St. Louis, MO.
Spring Show, Confluence Kombucha, St. Louis, MO.
Art For Women by Women, Thomas Dunn Learning Center, St. Louis, MO. 

Driven to Abstraction, Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

2017
Poptropolis, the Koken Art Factory, St. Louis, MO.
Everything Blue, Soulard Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
33 June MySLART, The Old Orchard Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
33 May MySLART (visitors choice award), The Old Orchard Gallery, St. Louis, MO. 

33 April MySLART, (visitors choice award), The Old Orchard Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

Serendipity, Jones Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
Saint Mary’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO.
Different Lens, Different Filter, Lambert St. Louis International Airport, St. Louis, MO.

Collections

2020, Clayton High School, St. Louis, MO.
2019, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO.

2019 ,Il Palato, St. Louis, MO
2017, Remember To Breath, UM-KC School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO. 

2017, Barnes West County Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, St. Louis, MO.

Special Projects

The Grieving Project, Album Cover and visual representations  

Passion Incarnate, Print Line, passionincarnate.com
Limited edition Krieg Chalk Bags, Product Licensure, kriegusa.com

Selected Art Features

2020, Gesso Magazine, St. Louis, MO. (article)
2019, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO. (article)
2019, KDHX Arts Interview, St. Louis, MO. (radio)
2017, Ladue News, St. Louis, MO. (article) 

Teaching 

2020 - Present, Lead Art Facilitator, Artists First STL, St. Louis, MO. 

2020, Mindsets for Imagination Workshop Series, Thomas Dunn Learning Center, St. Louis, MO 

Awards and Grants 

2020, Futures Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO. 

2020, Emergency Relief Fund, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO.
2019, Honorable Mention, Warm Soda Launch Show, St. Louis, MO. 

2019, Honorable Mention, Driven To Abstraction, St. Louis, MO.
2017, Visitors Choice Award, 33 May, MySLART, The Old Orchard Gallery, St. Louis, MO. 

2017, Visitors Choice Award, 33 April, MySLART, The Old Orchard Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

Service 

2020 - Present, Co-Programing Director, St. Louis International Coaching Federation, St. Louis, MO.  

2019 - Present, Artists First Young Professionals Board, St. Louis, MO.

Writing 

2020 Human Potential, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO. (blog) 

2020 A Space To Be Present, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO. (blog) 

2019 Freedom to Evolve, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO. (blog) 

Art is my quest for knowledge. The sciences and humanities each look at the world through their own lens but don’t offer a way to synthesize a broader view of existence. I use painting as a tool to organize and collect patterns.

From atoms to entire galaxies there’s an inherent sense of visual familiarity to both the description of root elements and the processes by which these root elements combine and change over time. Information appears to organize itself in a predictive rhythmical manner. The probabilistic yet predictive aspects to these algorithms underlie all natural formative processes.

The consistency of form implies a strong sense of purpose and directionality. However, for as long as there’s uncertainty about whether this code represents an external environment or a reflection of the internal system it’s being observed by, how will we know whether we’re looking out, or if we’re looking in?  

These paintings are produced to invoke the state of awe. The creative process is an opportunity to acknowledge limits of reason and see the worlds that exists beyond words. I invite you to slow down and think. Take a moment to wonder why. Remember how tiny we are compared to the stars, and yet how big can be a single heart. Feel that we are all in this together and believe that every moment is as beautiful as you make it.

My recent paintings explore the search for harmony, between the comfort of order and the magic of chaos. Discovery begins where the predictable breaks down. Within this choice, new worlds are born. The cultivation of unrepeatable work, which evolves on a moment-to-moment basis, yet still transpires a single message, represents the quality of our own evolutionary state as both individuals and as a collective. I leave you my footprint of findings to explore and expand upon.