It’s 2001. I’m a graduate art student and I’m meeting with the eminent lino-cut artist Bill Fick (my professor at the time). We are going to meet the legendary printmaker Richard Mock. We meet up and get on the G train heading out to a sketchy neighborhood in Brooklyn, near the Nevins stop. Bill looks […]

I grew up in the Southern U.S; I did not grow up in Japan and so I do not have an inherent understanding of the culture that spawned anime and manga. My first experience with Japanese popular culture was seeing the anime Akira as a teenager. I was completely captivated and simultaneously repulsed by the […]

Dangenart Gallery is a by-artist-for-artist organization founded by professionals from New York. It opened its exhibition space in Nashville, Tennessee, in August 2005. As an alternative to the mainstream commercial art galleries, it was founded to provide emerging contemporary artists with exhibition opportunities. In addition, it was adamantly dedicated to art colonization and cultivating art […]

For a long time, this library was able to capture the emotions of its stunned visitors. Some emotions remained stuck to the grilles in front of the books, or else they trickled away down the gaps in the parquet flooring. There, these emotions groaned and wished the whole day long, whenever visitors glided over them […]

We simply started working together because of our mutual curiosity in mixing each of our different skills. We hoped, together, to invent a new aesthetic in photographic imagery. Our desire to see unborn and unseen imagery has lead us to experiment with combining photography with other mediums such as drawings, collage, hand-made props and computer […]

Painting for me acts as a pressure release valve and I feel fortunate to enjoy it thoroughly while making a living at it. To do so, I find it requires regularly striving for freedom from my own expectations. This helps me to keep my mind open and my work fresh. While evolution as an artist […]

On November 11, 2001, J.D. Wilkes, Leslie Paterson-Marx and I opened The Plowhaus Artists’ Cooperative in a 700 square foot storefront in Historic Lockeland Springs, East Nashville. We were three artists trying to find a way to help our community heal after the devastating events of 9/11. Our goal was to provide a venue for […]

I am very interested in the materiality of painting. The possibility of a blob or drip of paint becoming a tree, face or anything else is central to my practice. By emphasizing the “painted-ness” of the work, I hope to get the image to exist in a somewhat precarious state, where it is constantly on […]

To some, my work appears simple. It’s about sex. On a superficial level, this may be true. Whether my work inspires deeper contemplation is dependent upon the viewer. My interest in portraying sex is more about the feelings that linger after people have shared an intimate moment together rather than the act itself. We all […]

I’ve always regarded myself as a musician first, then an artist. I was always very hands-on with my band: writing the songs, playing guitar, singing, producing, drawing, painting, photographing the album cover and designing and printing the shirts. Back in Australia in the early 80s, I was considered “too weird” while I was looking for […]