Statement

I sold my first artwork (a drawing of my aunt’s car) when I was eight years old. A fellow who said he collected art gave me two bucks and said “I’m hangin’ on to this kid, because someday you’re gonna be famous.” Fame? No. But that’s when I decided I was an artist. I came to San Francisco to attend college and study art and loved the place such that I never left. I’ve gone through a variety of styles, mediums and endeavors over the years, from portraiture and landscapes in watercolor and oils to ceramics and sculpture to photographic works and mail art. Most recently I have settled into creating mixed media abstract works on canvas and board using acrylic, spray paint, epoxy resin and found objects. Whereas hybrid describes the offspring of a mating of two different entities, my work can be described as the offspring of the mating of several disparate components. They possess elements of painting, sculpture, assemblage, graffiti and anything else that may pop into my brain. So I coined the term polybrids for them.