I photograph through an environmental awareness lens to promote good stewardship. Testing the boundaries of abstraction and recognition. Leveraging scale to allow each image to create its own environment. The thing I strive for is to provide something unique or evocative to a place in time that a viewer can relive again as their own.
I’m an Ohio native and current Virginia resident. I received a BFA from Kent State University School of Visual Communication and Design. My photography exploration is influenced by years of creating stories in the world of brand advertising and working along side of top photographers as an art director, creative director and educator. Training that inspires me to approach my art openly but with a purpose.
My work has been in exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Glave Kocen Gallery in Richmond, Capital One in Chesapeake, VA, BOJUart gallery exhibits in Virginia Beach and Richmond, and the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, and is part of numerous personal and corporate permanent collections.
Charitable Donations
Capturing and preserving moments is at the core of my work, celebrating our world through donations of time, money, and limited edition prints to charities and auctions for non-profit fundraising is a responsibility I carry. Below is a selection of organizations helped over the years:
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Norfolk Botanical Gardens
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
Ignite RPS (Empowering Richmond City Public School Teachers)
A Thousand Tales
