Dreams Want to Drift is a multiyear painting project that is inspired by the German philosopher Ernst Bloch’s three volume magnum opus about Utopia, wish casting and daydreaming called the Principle of Hope.
These paintings are wry, mixed-media visual flights adapted from the images, scenes, concepts and turns of phrase that Bloch employs to describe how wishes and daydreams, hope and desire are active in the formation of ideas and hope for the future.
acrylic and oil on canvas. 56 × 42 inches. 2026
Acrylic, pencil and collage on canvas. 56 × 42 inches. 2026
oil, acrylic and collage on paper. 22 × 30 inches. 2026
oil on canvas. 12 × 9 inches. 2026
oil on canvas. 12 × 9 inches. 2026
oil and collage on canvas. 12 × 9 inches. 2026
oil on canvas. 12 × 9 inches. 2026
acrylic and graphite on paper. 22 × 30 inches.2026
oil on canvas. 12 × 9 inches. 2026
oil and collage on paper. 22 × 30 inches. 2026
2020 - Present
Nostalgia Strikethrough is a series of Baroque inflected landscapes that are divided by hotly colored timber beams with punk fliers, municipal signage, literary and philosophical title pages swirling around them. They’re about puzzlement, legibility, metadata and the attention economy. Also jokes and some loveliness.
oil, acrylic and collage on canvas. 48 × 38 inches. 2025
oil, acrylic and collage on canvas. 24 × 28 inches. 2025
oil, acrylic and collage on canvas. 48 x 56 inches. 2023
oil, acrylic, and collage on canvas. 48 x 36 inches. 2024
oil, acrylic and collage on cavas. 36 × 28 inches. 2024-2025
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 70 x 56 inches. 2022
oil, acrylic, silkscreen and collage on canvas. 36 x 28 inches. 2022
oil, acrylic, silkscreen and collage on canvas. 36 x 28 inches. 2022
oil, acrylic, silkscreen and collage on canvas. 50 x 40 inches. 2023
Oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas. 70 x 56 inches.2021-2023
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 70 x 56 inches. 2021
oil, acrylic, silkscreen and collage on canvas. 70 x 56 inches. 2021-2022
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 56 x 70 inches. 2021-2024
acrylic, silkscreen and collage on paper. 30 x 22 inches. 2022
Acrylic, silkscreen and oil on paper. 30 x 22 inches. 2021-2022
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 30 x 22 inches. 2020
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on paper, 30 x 22 inches. 2020
2023 - Present
Sourced from the stuff that my algorithm surfaces to me, these paintings are absurdly opulent interiors loaded with humorous and biting contradictions relating to art, luxury branding, consumerism, and their environmental impacts.
oil on canvas. 38 × 34 inches. 2025
oil and acrylic on canvas. 36 x 48 inches. 2024
oil and acrylic on canvas. 16 × 12 inches. 2025
oil and acrylic on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2024
oil and acrylic on canvas. 36 × 48 inches. 2025
oil and acrylic on canvas. 48 x 60 inches. 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas. 48 x 36 inches. 2023
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas. 48 x 36 inches. 2023
oil and acrylic on canvas. 48 x 36 inches. 2023
Oil and acrylic on canvas. 36 x 28 inches. 2023
Acrylic and oil on paper. 12 × 9 inches. 2024
2016-2020
This series enlists architecture and interior design advertising as a framework for situating art historical references, textile designs, punk rock fliers and cultural ephemera. In these paintings Mondrian inspired window lites and Anne Truitt pillar candles appear with Minor Threat fliers and Nest thermostats in order to create absurdly opulent, yet spatially disjointed, interior and exterior spaces.
oil and acrylic on canvas. 34 x 28 inches. 2018
oil and acrylic on canvas. 34 x 28 inches. 2018
oil and acrylic on canvas, 16 x 12 inches. 2019
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 56 x 36 inches. 2019-2020
oil, acrylic and collage on canvas, 56 x 36 inches. 2018
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 56 x 36 inches. 2018
oil, acrylic and collage on canvas, 56 x 36 inches. 2018
oil, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 16 x 12 inches. 2019
oil and acrylic on canvas, 34 x 28 inches. 2018
2014-2016
This series of paintings uses architecture as a stand-in for the stratification and overwriting of place. These paintings marry cuteness and menace in their formal explorations of how space gets cannibalized at the same time that it memorializes what was removed.
oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 47 x 67 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 16 x 12 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 24 x 30 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 47 x 67 inches. 2016
oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2017
oil on canvas. 30 x 24 inches. 2016
2011 - 2013
Topocosm uses theologian T.H. Gaster’s concept of a “topocosm” - a locality containing a complex of beliefs, histories, weather and topography as a springboard for paintings that work to describe the sensation of visual culture with its contemporaneity and overlapping narratives.
oil on canvas.40 x 32in.
oil and silkscreen on canvas.12x16in.
oil on canvas.40x32in.
oil and silkscreen on canvas.16x12in.
oil on canvas.40x32in.
oil on canvas.32x40in.
oil and silkscreen on canvas.30x24in.
oil on canvas.40x32in.
oil on canvas.40 x 32in.
2007 - 2015
A series of paintings featuring cowboys marauding throughout the landscape as a rumination on the myths and ideologies whirling away in the soup of Americanness. They were infuenced as much by Looney Tunes cartoons, Renaissance painting tropes, Tocqueville and Micael Ondaatje’s “Collected Works of Billy the Kid”.
oil on canvas.24x28in.
oil on canvas.36x48in
oil on canvas. 36x48 in.
oil on canvas.16x12in.
oil on canvas.28 x 32in.
oil on canvas.12x16in.
oil on canvas.40 x 30in.
oil on canvas.24x30in.
