I was born in Aurora, Colorado and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where I cheated death — surviving the 1979 Battle of Flowers Parade mass shooting. After stints in Salt Lake City (had a gun pulled on me), Flagstaff (became a hippie), Austin (almost went over a cliff in a bus crash in the mountains of Oaxaca), Chicago (beaten by gangbangers), and New York City (largely unscathed, save for three years traveling the globe playing guitar in Surfbort), I currently live and work 15 miles west in the beautiful, rustic woods of South Orange Village Township, New Jersey.
I received a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin and an AAS in Visual Communications from the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago. I began my career in Austin, TX, as a founding member of the punk rock band, the Motards — designing posters and record covers in the burgeoning DIY music scene there throughout the 1990’s before continuing my art and design practice in the DIY music scene in Chicago in the aughts.
My work has been recognized by the AIGA, HOW magazine and Communication Arts, was featured in Gestalten’s, Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress & Graphic Design (2010), in Basheer Graphic Group’s, Creative Calendar Collection (2011), and in The Empty Bottle Chicago: 21+ Years Music / Friendly / Dancing (2017) from Curbside Splendor Publishing. I have exhibited my work in galleries in New York, Chicago, Charleston, SC and Austin, TX, and my work resides in the permanent collection of the Chicago Historical Society. In 2017, I had my first solo show at Fort Houston in Nashville, TN.