I am inspired by the great nature artists of the 18th and 19th centuries: their stark white backgrounds, obsessive detail, and quest to catalog nature’s prodigious formal invention. This meeting of art and science is contemporary — again.

But unlike those masters — who idealized the perfect specimen — I seek out a feral botany, found literally off the beaten path. More portrait than a still life, I depict subjects that are akin to us: vibrant, complex, graceful, but also vulnerable, malignant, mortal.

What's New:

Follow these links for images from my recent residency in Marfa, Texas creating a ceramic tile public art mural, for work from a residency at Acadia National Park in Maine, and for Turf, a new work that premieres at Wave Hill in the Bronx