Resume

Statement

I explore the relationship of our society to the urban realm through an interpretation of the built environment. Focusing on outdated and well-worn bits of the city, the infrastructure that is left behind, as humans reshape their surroundings to support an increasingly homogeneous existence. These often-ignored places are reflective of the people that created and used them. Some of it will survive as an indication of what happened in the urban centers around the turn of the 21st. Century. Most of it will eventually disappear. It is this simultaneous ambivalence, and reverence that people have toward their habitat that I am demonstrating through my work.

The American city is ever-changing. As cultures continue to be economically and socially mobile, they are also physically on the move; one group leaves, another takes it’s place. Possibly, the constantly changing city is the most visible evidence of a society’s evolution.


Selected Exhibitions (*solo shows)

2009
  • Beverly Arts Center, Chicago*
2008
  • Artropolis, Merchandise Mart, Chicago
2007
  • Artropolis, Merchandise Mart, Chicago
2006
  • Solo exhibition, DePaul University, Chicago*
2003
  • Morgan Park Art Center, Chicago
2002
  • Under Contract: Artists Look at Chicago Real Estate, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago
2000
  • Chicago Public Library, Chicago
  • Gallery artist, Raw Art Gallery, Chicago
1999
  • Rogers Park Artists (shown in conjunction with David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood), North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie, IL
  • Gallery artist, Raw Art Gallery, Chicago
1996
1995
  • Gallery Artist, Gallicurcci Original Works, Evanston, IL
1993
  • World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago
1992
  • Solo Exhibition, Studio One Man Show, Chicago*
  • The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Munster, Indiana
1990
  • Evanston & Vicinity, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1989
  • Akrasia Gallery, Chicago
  • Solo exhibition, Morton College, Cicero, IL*
1988
  • Modern Love, ARC Gallery, Chicago