March 31st, 2025

I was happy to join Shona Macdoland on Episode 320 of the Studio Break podcast with Dave Linneweh. We discussed our upcoming show, “The Vapours So Whiten and Thicken the Air,” a two-person exhibition of new work that explores atmospheric phenomena linked to climate change. You can find Studio Break on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

The “Vapours So Whiten and Thicken the Air” opens at Studio Break Gallery on Satruday, April 19th, 2025. The reception is from 5-8pm. The show will run through May 11th. Hours by appointment.

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1N046 Ridgeland Ave
West Chicago, IL 60185
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October 24th, 2024

Excited to announce my painting, Number 10 (Vespers), will grace the cover of the November 2024: Film 50 (Print Edition) of Newcity. Design: Dan Streeting. Photo: Zoë Bare.

October 1st, 2024

I’m honored to share a corner in the back room at 65GRAND with my friend, Jonathan Worcester, and to support Gina Hunt’s solo show, “Mirage,” on view up front in the main space of the gallery until October 5th. Photo credit: Holly Murkerson. Image provided by the gallery.

September, 9th 2024

I'm excited to announce the opening of "Shore," my solo show at Real Tinsel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mounted in the gallery's underground "Grotto" exhibition, flat file, and lounge space, the show includes a variety of work I've made over the last few years informed by the ecologies and environments of the Great Lakes.

The show opens September 13th and runs through October 13, 2024. I'll be at the gallery on the afternoon of Saturday, the 21st. Looking forward to meeting visitors and discussing my work.

July 2nd, 2024

Read my review in Newcity of Noelle Africh’s “Superstition” at Slow Dance.

May 3rd, 2024

Read my review in the New Art Examiner of Soumya Netrabile’s “mono no aware” at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery.

April 15th, 2024

I’m so appreciative of this thoughtful and thorough review of “Doomscapes and the Digital Beyond.” Thank you to Newcity and to K.A. Letts for her close looking and concise prose. Art writing is hard, it takes up your time, and lord knows those of us who do it are not in it for the money. It's for the love of the game, so to speak. It's why the words mean so much, why they matter.

“Doomscapes and the Digital Beyond” is on view at the ARC Gallery until April 27th. Gallery hours are Thursdays and Fridays: 2pm - 6pm and Saturdays and Sundays: 12pm - 4pm.

March 29th, 2024

One week from today, on Friday, April 5th, from 5-8pm, is the opening reception for “DOOMSCAPES AND THE DIGITAL BEYOND” at the ARC Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.

I was honored late last year to be invited to conceive of and curate this juried group exhibition about our damaged planet and its imagined future. A huge thanks to everyone at the historic ARC Gallery for this amazing opportunity and all their help along the way. And thanks of course to all the talented and thoughtful artists. I look forward to meeting everyone and celebrating together at the opening next week.

With most natural systems in steep decline, cutting edge technologies are rapidly opening up vast new realms of discovery and innovation that promise to fundamentally change the way we, as humans, relate to each other and the world. This exhibition asks how we might negotiate a landscape beset by polycrisis (climate disruption, ocean acidification, pollution, natural habitat destruction, etc.) and find meaning in a culture where visuality is increasingly defined by the pixelated glow of a pulsing screen, a thoroughly digitized, interfaced, networked, and algorithmic society in which machines learn, intelligence is artificial, minds are extended, reality is virtual, and the future envisioned as posthuman. For as the author, Erik Davis, writes it in his book, Techgnosis, “We live on the brink in a time of accelerating noise and fury, of newly minted nightmares and invisible architectures of luminous code that just might help save the day. The sense of an ending ruptures the false complacency of the everyday, and allows us to glimpse our global turbulence, if only for a blink of an eye, under the implacable sign of the absolute.”

February 20th, 2024

Read my review of “(No) Room for Doubt” at Devening Projects at the Chicago Reader.

January 24th, 2024

Read my review of Jonathan Worcester’s “Tempers” at Cleaner Gallery + Projects in Newcity.

January 1, 2024

I’m honored to have been invited by Chicago’s very own ARC Gallery to conceive, curate, and jury a group exhibition.

Call for Entries: “DOOMSCAPES AND THE DIGITAL BEYOND”

With most natural systems on this planet in steep decline, cutting edge technologies are rapidly opening up vast new realms of discovery and innovation that promise to fundamentally change the way we, as humans, relate to each other and the world.

How does art, a technology with origins that stretch back to the dawn of symbolic human thought, negotiate a landscape beset by polycrisis (climate disruption, ocean acidification, pollution, natural habitat destruction, etc.)? How do artists find meaning in a culture where visuality is increasingly defined by the pixilated glow of a pulsing screen. A thoroughly digitized, interfaced, networked, and algorithmic society in which machines learn, intelligence is artificial, minds are extended, reality is virtual, and the future imagined as posthuman.

As the author, Erik Davis, puts it in his revelatory and prescient book, Techgnosis, “We live on the brink in a time of accelerating noise and fury, of newly minted nightmares and invisible architectures of luminous code that just might help save the day. The sense of an ending ruptures the false complacency of the everyday, and allows us to glimpse our global turbulence, if only for a blink of an eye, under the implacable sign of the absolute.”

We invite artists of all backgrounds, age groups, generations, and stages of their career, working in all mediums, to submit work that explores the challenges to image, object, and meaning making in the context of die-offs, biodiversity loss, dead zones, extinction and the wild proliferation and unmitigated advancements in computational technologies.

Application Deadline: March 3, 2024
Opening: Friday, April 5th, 2024
Dates: April 5th - 27, 2024

Please visit the ARC Gallery website to learn more and apply.

November 2nd, 2023

My work was recently featured in Dovetail, an online magazine about contemporary art that overlaps and intersects with place. Kate Mothes, the founder and editor, wrote a wonderful piece that captures well the relationships between my practice and the Great Lakes.

October 2nd, 2023

Read my review of Scott Wolniak’s “Crosscurrents” at Goldfinch in Newcity.

September 28th, 2023

Listen to my conversation with David Linneweh on the Studio Break Podcast.

September 29th, 2023

I had a great time talking to Dave Linneweh on Episode 295 of the Studio Break podcast. We covered a lot: my studying art at the St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Northwestern University; how I stopped making art for a time and how I slowly gave myself permission to make paintings again; my Great Lakes, Dune, and Niagara series; and of course my solo show, “In the Mist of a Great Fall,” on view now at Oliva Gallery until October 7th.

You can find Studio Break on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I hope you enjoy our conversation and thanks for listening.

September 18th, 2023

Read Frank Geiser’s review in Newcity of my solo exhibition, “In the Mist of a Great Fall” at the Oliva Gallery.

September 16th, 2023

Artist talk by way of a conversation with my friend, Cole Pierce.

September 14th, 2023

For all their iridescence, shimmering luminosity, and scale, the Niagara paintings need especially to be seen in person, but I think this video by Bob. captures well their presence and grace. On view now at the Oliva Gallery through the 7th of October.

July 17th, 2023