About Me

I am a trans man making work about my life and experiences growing up in a deeply conservative and religious Roman Catholic family. My work is classically inspired from the Renaissance and especially the Baroque movements. I primarily paint and create digital work, exploring what it is like to no longer be welcome in the culture I was raised in; appropriating religious iconography significant to me from my childhood. Growing up I remember being deeply affected by the beautiful paintings, sculptures, and stained glass present in even the smallest of churches, a distinctly Catholic experience as compared to my Protestant peers. The beautiful dramatic imagery forever burned into my psyche I am still drawn to it even now as I have to fight for my rights as a trans and bisexual man.

I recontextualize the religious iconography ever present in my youth through a modern lens as a means of exploring the intersection between my queer identity and my spiritual upbringing in the Catholic church and how those things effect my personal relationships, especially with my wife and daughter. I seek to examine that intersection within a contemporary context and create the representation that was kept from me in my youth. I find this especially pertinent as a mother now. I don’t want my daughter, or any other child for that matter, to be made to feel as strange or foreign in my own existence as I was made to feel growing up queer in a conservative household.

When I’m not making fine art I split my time between illustration, fibers, and ceramics; often selling my work at local events and conventions.