ARTIST STATEMENT

I make photographs to create meaning by editing my world into fragments that when removed from the larger environment, speak even greater truths. I use my camera as a means to explore both familiar and unfamiliar worlds, relating with people and places to gain an understanding of the harmony and discord that combine to create engaging images. I aim to separate subject and content to explore their relationship or the friction that may at times result in unforeseen meaning.

I started by photographing architecture and urban landscapes, but I felt my interest in these stationery subjects begin to wane. I expanded to integrate people into my work and now the challenge never ends. Whether intimate portraits or people within the social landscape, I attempt to probe below the surface to reveal circumstances perhaps unknown even to the subjects themselves. These revelations satisfy the questions that I carry with me about life and at the same time confound me further, leading me on a constant quest to express the inexpressible.

While my work is deeply personal, I want to lead viewers to create their own narrative as I hope that my work uncovers hidden emotions and touches on universal experiences which bring them to alternate interpretations. I am satisfied when my photographs reflect viewers to themselves as complex individuals, as I am myself revealed in the process of creating them. I wish to invite viewers to participate in my work and to come away asking questions about how they fit into their own worlds.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1. •Shore Signs; April 3-30, 2008; Apart Contemporary Gallery; Asbury Park, NJ
   

2. •Collide-A-Scope; January 16-18, 2009; Mattison Park; Asbury Park, NJ
   

3. •Window Washer; June 19, 2009; Cookman Avenue; Asbury Park, NJ
   

4. •Flash Point: Portraits of Asbury Park Firefighters; November 28, 2009; Third Avenue Pavilion; Asbury Park, NJ
   

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1. •Sensory Prelude; March 8-April 6, 2008; International Center of Photography; New York, NY
   

2. •Tri-City Arts Tour; June 6-8, 2008; Asbury Park, NJ
   

3. •Imagine Asbury Park; January 2009-January 2010; Downtown Asbury Park, NJ
   

4. •Postcards from the Edge Benefit for Visual AIDS; January 9-10, 2009; Metro Pictures; New York, NY
   

5. •Greetings from Asbury Park; February 15, 2009; Union Docs / Documentary Arts Collaborative; Brooklyn, NY
   

6. •The Summer Show Juried Exhibition; May 8-August 8, 2009; Gallery 125; Trenton, NJ
   

7. •A Walk of Art Juried Exhibition; May 15-June 18, 2009; Heaven Gallery; Asbury Park, NJ
   

8. •Highway Art Gallery; August 17-September 17, 2009; Billboards along the highways of New Jersey, sponsored by Palisades Insurance Company
   

9. •Current Exposures Juried Exhibition; September 11-November 7, 2009; Gallery 125; Trenton, NJ
   

10. •Point of View Juried Exhibition; November 13, 2009-February 6, 2010;
    Gallery 125; Trenton, NJ
    

11. •Postcards from the Edge Benefit for Visual AIDS; January 8-10, 2010; ZieherSmith Gallery; New York, NY
    

12. •As We See It 2010; June 3-August 15, 2010; Campbell-Soady Gallery; New York, NY
    

13. •Vanished Asbury; June 19-August 15, 2010; Heaven Gallery; Asbury Park, NJ
    

14. •Smallworks; August 21-October 24, 2010; Heaven Gallery; Asbury Park, NJ
    

PUBLICATIONS

1. •Exploring Animal Rights and Welfare
   

2. •Financial History Magazine
   

3. •The Lively Arts
   

4. •The East Hampton Star
   

5. •The Coaster
   

AFFILIATIONS

1. •Arts Coalition of Asbury Park
   

2. •NYC Photo Club
   

3. •Member, International Center of Photography
   

4. •Artist in Residence, Asbury Park Fire Department