Everything we experience — sound, light, heat, color — travels as a wave. These invisible structures shape the world before we ever see it. My paintings begin there, in the space between signal and sensation, where energy moves through matter and something emerges from nothing.

Working at large scale with acrylic, ink, and spray paint, I build translucent layers that shift between revelation and dissolution. I paint on sometimes unprimed canvas, often working with the surface inverted — letting gravity and material behavior introduce forces I can respond to but never fully control. The resulting images carry the tension of that negotiation: fluid and structural, spontaneous and deliberate.

My Resonance Series explores the wave patterns that connect seemingly unrelated phenomena — acoustic vibrations, ocean currents, light frequencies, subatomic motion. I’m drawn to the moment a pattern becomes visible, when chaos organizes into something rhythmic and alive. The paintings don’t illustrate these forces; they try to behave like them.

Alongside my painting practice, I’m experimenting with integrating physical light into the work itself — embedding fiber optic light into painted surfaces. It’s an extension of the same question: if I’m painting about light as energy, what happens when the painting actually emits it?

I hold an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and a degree in Finance from Duquesne University — a combination that shapes how I think about both making and sustaining a creative practice. I’ve studied at Sotheby’s Institute and exhibited internationally, including The Other Art Fair (Los Angeles), Superfine Art Fair (San Francisco), Turtle Bay Exploration Park Museum (Redding), and a solo exhibition at the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce. My work has found collectors across the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.