Artist Statement:

I feel it’s my role as an artist to continually redefine myself, and in doing so question my reality and the status quo. Trophy Soldiers investigated current trends in fashion and design, and tried to provoke dialogue with the viewer about how we as a culture perceive imagery. How we often times accept popular imagery without asking what the imagery actually means.

I am affected personally by the war in Iraq very deeply. Having joined the U.S. Army after 911 after living as a resident in Brooklyn, NY for several years, I often times question our involvement in the war and would like to shed light on issues regarding my culture and global policy, if only to reinforce my personal engagement and obligation to the soldiers who have died while serving my country. My latest drawing series is called Polar Brokers. In this project I take the bio pics of big oil executives and morph images of polar bears into their silhouette’s. With the Polar Brokers series I am attempting to try and make myself think of the issues of global warming and big oil in capitalism, daily. Making these portraits I envision the big oil executives one day in the near future looking in the mirror and seeing themselves partially responsible for the extinction of an entire species.

A new multimedia project I’m working on is Globatron.  Globatron is an alter-ego character I use as a disguise for performance art projects.  Through the use of the mask I am able to say things I couldn’t say otherwise.  The mask allows me to come closer to the truth whatever that truth might be.  Globatron has also morphed into a nationally read art blog www.globatron.org which uses the namesake only.  Often times the alter-ego Globatron collides with the art blog Globatron in interesting collaborative efforts usually unseen by both parties without time for retrospection.

My work uses imagery specific to what I’m investigating and will change according to each project. I am concerned with apathy in my life and in our culture and how that affects us on a daily basis. I find it interesting to make work that is iconic and symbolic and at the same time can be perceived many ways. The end goal for me is to attempt to have a conversation about real issues that we all are experiencing personally and politically in order to engage thought and action.

Artist Resume:

(In 2009 I decided to no longer create any more physical art objects to show in art spaces. All my creative work is now digital and is shown 24/7 at www.globatron.org and other digital art projects.)

Solo Shows:

Polar Brokers Digital Show at, Galerie de la Royal Digital, June, 2008. Click to view rooms

Joe Bar, Seattle, WA, February 2008. Click here for pics.

The Plaza Theater, Atlanta, GA, July 2007.

Group Shows:

Open Ground at the Fountain Art Fair, Wynwood Art District, Miami 2008.  Click for pics.

Making Marks Drawing Show,
Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, September, 2008. Video coverage of the opening.

Premiere opening for Bungalow on Park, August 2008.

Drawdown at Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, July 2008.Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA ,April, 2008.

LABOR @ Fuel, Jacksonville, FL, April, 2008.

Micro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 2007.

OPAQ Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, October 2007.

Bogda Gallery, LABOR show, Jacksonville, FL, October 2007.

The Helm Gallery, Tacoma, WA, Sept-Oct 2007.

Pedestrian Projects, Jacksonville, FL, August 2007.

OPAQ Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, July 2007.

Bogda Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, July 2007.

Art Open House, Jacksonville, FL, June 2007.

Burrito Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, January 2007.

Enlisted in the U.S. Army, 2001-2004.

Open Groud, Installation 1, Brooklyn, NY, 2000.

Dumbo Arts Festival, Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York 2000.

Windows on Broadway, New York, NY, August, 1999.

Education:

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Florida State University, 1997.