I was born in Cheltenham, outside of Philadelphia, to a family that offered crayons and markers instead of toy guns and GI Joes. In high school crayons turned into pastels, markers became acrylics, and I continued to pursue art.

At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied Fine Arts under an up-and-coming department of dedicated professors, and learned a little about a wide variety of subjects and a little more about oils. Graduating in May 2004, I moved to the center of Philly and completed a series of paintings that took stock of my new surroundings.

In 2005, I traveled with Keren, my wife, to South America. We traveled from Peru to the Patagonia and back north along the beaches of Brazil to Central America. During this time I became a suitcase painter. Rolled canvasses and disposable palettes were not easy travel companions, but the visual landscape of Latin America became my new muse.

I returned from abroad and moved into an apartment in the East Village. Inspired by the raw energy of my environs, I combined the images of people, buildings, and everyday spectacles into a frenetic abstraction.

Now I am exploring the essence of those abstractions. What does it mean now without recognizable forms? How do I maintain specificity in universality? This is my current exploration, an internally driven search for pure electicity on the canvas.