After a number of years producing and contributing to various self-published comics and ‘zines, certain situations in my life convinced me to rethink my priorities. Leaving behind the smog-shrouded suburbs of Los Angeles where I was born and raised, I eventually settled down in northwestern New Jersey and focused my energies on painting and drawing while pursuing a degree in fine art.

Working mostly in oil and acrylic on canvas, the most direct influences on my art include surrealist and expressionist artists of the early to mid twentieth century, underground cartoonists such as R. Crumb and Daniel Clowes, advertising imagery, anatomical textbook illustration, and the Southern California punk rock scene I grew up with. The majority of my work has to do with human physiology, with humor and some traces of social commentary having a part to play as well. My favorite subject is the human head and face – I find it particularly enjoyable to employ elements of cubism, surrealism, and cartooning to distort the visage, at times beyond the point of easy recognition.