Internship with Kyle Schmidt

I recently finished my internship with Kyle Schmidt A printmaker from Space 1026 in Philadelphia PA. Over the span of five months we worked on many screen prints and about 450 double sided non-silver prints. These prints were made into CD jackets for the band Voodoo Economics. I assisted kyle in all the non-silver printing and assembling of these CD jackets.




Finished CD Jackets






Screen printed stickers

current work

The past few months have been pretty busy for me. I've been working with this new idea of drawing as a form of painting. I started to realize that my drawings speak louder then my paintings. I also like the look of my drawings more then the paintings, so I started doing a lot of drawings as studies before I paint. Bringing the drawing element back into my paintings has given me more freedom and has shown me a new way of thinking. Subject wise I've been dealing with ideas of self identity and culture. As an artist I am still developing myself and my work. My recent work has told me a lot about myself and I'm pretty excited to see where it takes me.
For now here are some pictures of my current work.


Jr. painting Crit
painting "These people aren't your friends"
drawing for painting. "These people aren't your friends"
painting "Three of a kind"

drawing for painting

self portrait "Break through"

self portrait of me in a boat. "This unknown world"

Jr. Painting Exhibition 2008

For a while I was thinking, why don't Jr. Painting majors at UArts ever get to show there work? Every other major in our school has Sophomore, Jr., and Senior shows organized and advertised by the school except the painting department. Why is it that we pay the same amount of money as everyone else but our department gets neglected? Founding for shows and visiting artists are low and/or non-existent. When I asked the department about why we don't get equal amount of showing opportunity as other majors I was told "It's not my job to get you shows." and "If you want to have a show organize it yourself." So thats just what I did. I feel as painters it is important to show our work because our careers depend on it. After speaking with the students I agreed to organize a Jr. Painting Show for UArts painting majors. Most off my studio mates were really excited to show there work and I was really excited to organize it.

I'll post some pictures soon.

Solo Art Exhibition 2007

Here are some photos from my solo art show at Chaucer's last year.