I’m a NYC based visual artist, dabbling in photography, illustration, and videography. Much of my work focuses on the juncture of the mundane and the absurd, delving into the vast grey areas of life in which the humorous and tragic sometimes unintentionally meet. In my visual art, I’m inspired by people like Harvey Kurtzman, John Severin, George Grosz, Charles Schulz, William Blake, Joe Coleman, and I find that my photographic and video art follows similar “visual” principles. For that reason I tend to be influenced by more “gritty” or natural filmmakers, like the young Martin Scorsese, James Toback, Sidney Lumet, or more stylized versions of the same, like Nicholas Winding Refn. When doing a project, I tend to look for the most striking visual encapsulation of my overall idea, and then use the writing, acting, and cinematography to build on it.

As overall inspiration, I look to everyday moments in which the problems of mundane life can be shown to reflect broader, impersonal social realities. I’ve always felt successful when people come away from viewing my art with the feeling that they’ve seen something completely relatable to their own experience, yet skewered in a way that highlights its lurking absurdities.