Artist Spotlight

I began tattooing in Madison, WI during my final year of college. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin and spending a few years honing my skills, I moved to St. Louis after receiving a job offer to work at Iron Age Tattoo Studio.

While tattooing affords me an immense artistic outlet, I have continued to explore the more traditional approach of brush and paint. It has also afforded me the chance to travel and be influenced by the visual traditions of other cultures. 

For the last few years, I have gone to tattooing by appointment only, focusing on larger custom projects. This has given me more time to focus on painting, and exploring ideas and techniques, which are not always possible in the tattoo medium. In the past 10 years, I have shown at a number of galleries for group events, including the now defunct PHD gallery in 2013, more recently at Houska Gallery, and the new Fifteen Windows Gallery.

This July and August I will be exhibiting at both locations of the Missouri Athletic Club, and in October will be my first solo show since Componere Gallery in 2014. It will be titled “Guardians & Gateways”, showing mid-October through mid-November at Fifteen Windows on Cherokee St. 

I was influenced at an early age by faerie tales, stories of mythology, and fantasy and dream-like realities they represent. My work in recent years draws from this subconscious reality to reflect more specifically the idea of thresholds or gateways, between realms of consciousness or existence, along with the guardians or guides to these transitions.