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About

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Artist

Art has always been in my DNA. During my childhood, I spent time with my mother exploring screenprinting and with my grandmother in her flower shop creating floral arrangements. As a kindergartner I drew and sketched constantly, dreaming of "making it big", routinely sending drawings to my favorite childhood magazines such as Highlights and Crickets. Sadly my childhood "masterpieces" were never discovered. Over time, I developed other interests and plans so I put my artistic talents aside and did not pick it up again until my 40s when I quit my corporate finance job. I loved the creativity of entrepreneurship that I studied getting my MBA at Babson University, but the world of corporate finance was too constricting for me. So I took my artistic passion and business expertise and decided to get another degree in Landscape Design at the Boston Architectural College. I then launched Broad Meadow Farms Landscape Design. After a few years, Covid literally changed the landscape for small business owners and it was also at this time that my wife and I decided to redecorate. While shopping for art, I became inspired and suggested that instead of buying an expensive piece we loved, I would paint one myself. A few months later my art transformed our home and I was hooked. 

Statement About My Works

My work exists between paintings and sculptures, order and organic growth. Through repetition and accumulation, I transform surfaces into structure.

 

Using dense, tactile formations, I build compositions informed by abstraction, woven matter, organic networks, and architectural fragmentation. The works operate as evolving systems — appearing to grow, compress, mutate, and reorganize over time. At their core, they explore how small repeated forms can accumulate into something immersive, physical, and psychologically charged.

 

Each piece is created through an intense, obsessive, and meditative process in which individual clusters become part of a larger interconnected field. From a distance, the works read as geometric or monochromatic compositions; up close, they dissolve into irregular handcrafted formations that shift between image and object.

 

This tension between control and instability, structure and organic movement, is central to my practice. Individual marks and loops accumulate into surfaces that evoke cellular networks, topographic landscapes, woven textiles, and fragmented architectural spaces. Rather than depicting a specific subject, the works function more as material environments — spaces where perception fluctuates between the microscopic a more macro-network.

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