Artist's Statement

For as long as I can remember, I have made art and music. That impulse never needed a reason, it simply was. I left home for college in 1993 and earned a degree in Conceptual and Information Arts from San Francisco State University in 2000. I stayed in San Francisco for two decades, showing work all across the city, though most often at Live Worms Gallery in North Beach. In 1997 and 1998, I co-owned and curated a space at 1700 Market Street—first atelier 1700, then Nommesen, Soernsen, Steinbock Gallery, and finally Floorspace. We lasted until we lost the lease.

I spent several years in China, including two in Beijing, curating shows and showing work in both San Francisco and Beijing, and exhibiting work in Sweden where the Swedish National Art Council still holds one of my pieces. One of my highlights was selling a work to Jack Hirschman, San Francisco's Poet Laureate.

My most successful and longest running body of work is the Wallpaper Series: oversized photocopies of my own photography, glued directly to canvas and then painted into. The process sits somewhere between reproduction and mark-making, wallpaper and artifact. Domestic scale blown up to something almost architectural.

My materials are wherever I find them. I love using outdated technology. My work references the body, commentary on art itself, and observing life from the outside. I have worked in paint, murals, sculpture, photography, websites, interactive installations, but also unconventional meida like balloons, LEGO bricks, photocopies, and code. I made The Eye Mac: my own eye inside an Apple Macintosh, programmed in Hypercard, a language already dead when I used it. I framed my own psychological breakdown and hospital journal in a gallery show. I made mosaics from LEGO bricks. When an ex-lover destroyed one piece in an argument, I exhibited it as an installation—broken.

I stopped being an active artist in the late 2010s. But the I have never stopped creating.