Check out my interview with Lab Magazine! What a beautiful publication.

Raw Material: Drawing and Installations now on view from Oct 18th - Dec. 15th in the newly renovated PARSE (previously Parse Gallery). PARSE is a gallery located in New Orleans in a three-story, late 19th century building at 134 Carondelet Street in the Central Business District. This show marks a new direction for the gallery with Co-directors Ricardo Barba and Amy Mackie launching a curator-centric program this fall. Invited curators from around the globe will organize future exhibitions and events in conjunction with PARSE and other artists.

I have newly constructed work on display in a show called Good Place, No Place. On view at the Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park thru March 6th. More info here.
See more images of the work at my website.

I exhibited reproduction prints of my drawings for the first time ever at the Green Festival in DC this past weekend. All of my frames are custom made by me from the Paulownia tomentosa wood which is grown and milled locally in my home state of Maryland at Mt. Hope Farms. Now that is sustainable! All of my prints are done on Hahnemuhle brand bamboo paper. Hahnemuhle donates to an environmental project every time I buy their paper. It was a blast sharing my work with such eco minded patrons and entrepreneurs. I hope to do it again next year. Please visit my Etsy site for access to everything I was selling in DC. Thanks again for all those who visited my booth.

I was a guest artist at Pearly's Beauty Shop for a Swoon Studio fundraiser of the Transformazium church restoration in Braddock, PA. Can't wait to do it again. Other guest artists included Alina Tenser (on nails), Andrew Poneros (on hair), Billy Mode (on body paint), Natalie Frank (on make-up and hair), Mickalene Thomas (body paint), Molly Crabapple (on projections), Mark Read (on projections), and Ayumi Motegi (also on nails). Find out more about Transformazium and the happenings in Braddock here or see more photos of Pearly's Beauty Salon here. Photo credit goes to Lauren Silberman

Been working at the ole' Poster Repair shop again. It's just like old times. I really love it! Here's a peek at my next challenge. It's nice to work all day around such good graphic design....classic :). Even the navy had a good eye for color and composition then. 

From May 18th to June 22nd I was an artist-in-resident at Lobot Gallery in the industrial warehouse complex of West Oakland, CA. I completed three new large drawings and installed a piece, which showcased 19 of 33 known edible and medicinal weeds found within the urban landscape. Nineteen of the thirty-three were foraged from no more than a 3 block radius of Lobot. Each of the glass vials is supported by one or more colored rubber bands which correspond to the color coded anatomical drawings of internal organs. Pink, for example, demonstrates the plant is good for digestive complaints while yellow can be used for skin irritations, blue for respiratory, etc, etc. Many species can be used for more than one ailment. See more photos of the installation here. Some plants included:

Matricaria discoidea    Pineapple weed

Calendula arvensis   Calendula

Sonchus oleraceus   Sow thistle

Lobularia maritime   Sweet Alyssum

Raphanus raphanistrum Wild Radish

Capsella bursa-pastoris    Shepards purse

Malva neglecta   Common mallow

Solanum nigrum Black Nightshade (Parts are very toxic. Be careful.)

Trifolium pratense    Red Clover

Portulaca oleracea    Purslane

Rubus discolores  Himalayan Blackberry