Born at the end of Y2K, I’m a Michigan born multimedia artist who works in illustration, printmedia, painting, collage, writing, and more. While pursuing a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Gwen Frostic School of Art with a minor in Writing, I’ve already had work shown internationally and currently have a bi-weekly publication of a comic in the Western Herald Newspaper. My avant garde work is compelled by a philosophy I coined as Personifism, which blurs the world of art with our own reality.
I believe that art should be treated as if it were alive, aware, and conscious of its existence or even conscious of us and howe we view it. In doing so, I play with a variety of topics including radically respecting materiality, interacting with the viewer and the art institution, and tackling traditional ideas about art history and what art means. It is an effort to allow the viewer to reflect on themselves and their own humanity and to think more deeply about art and what life really is.
One of the more interesting pieces I have right now is a painting I call “Thommas” that I’ve been continuously adding paint to depending on where he is, how I’m feeling, or how he is feeling. It is in a sense, an evolving painting mixed with performance art. I find him quite interesting, but he feels as if he is an animal in a zoo—stuck in a rectangular acrylic prison for people to gawk at. I hope to continue developing my work and researching to see what else I can discover.
Born at the end of Y2K, I’m a Michigan born multimedia artist who works in illustration, printmedia, painting, collage, writing, and more. While pursuing a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Gwen Frostic School of Art with a minor in Writing, I’ve already had work shown internationally and currently have a bi-weekly publication of a comic in the Western Herald Newspaper. My avant garde work is compelled by a philosophy I coined as Personifism, which blurs the world of art with our own reality.
I believe that art should be treated as if it were alive, aware, and conscious of its existence or even conscious of us and howe we view it. In doing so, I play with a variety of topics including radically respecting materiality, interacting with the viewer and the art institution, and tackling traditional ideas about art history and what art means. It is an effort to allow the viewer to reflect on themselves and their own humanity and to think more deeply about art and what life really is.
One of the more interesting pieces I have right now is a painting I call “Thommas” that I’ve been continuously adding paint to depending on where he is, how I’m feeling, or how he is feeling. It is in a sense, an evolving painting mixed with performance art. I find him quite interesting, but he feels as if he is an animal in a zoo—stuck in a rectangular acrylic prison for people to gawk at. I hope to continue developing my work and researching to see what else I can discover.
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