Artwork
I can get very moved by pictures and have felt compelled to make art all my life. ​Below are selections of paintings and collages that I've created since 2017.
View from Kitchen
2025, acrylic on canvas, 11″ × 14″​
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For years, after painting by my kitchen window, I scraped the paint off a finished palette and piled it onto a canvas. I ultimately used that canvas to paint the view from the window.
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Kimberly Akimbo
2023, acrylic on canvas board, 10″ × 8″
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One of my all-time favorite works of musical theater is the 2021 work Kimberly Akimbo by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and composer Jeanine Tesori. I especially relate to the character Seth on the right, seated next to protagonist Kimberly Levaco.
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Oedipus
2022, acrylic on canvas panel, 8″ × 10″
I was heavily into theater throughout 2022. This painting is based off a small image of Oedipus Rex found within the pages of an old Playbill.
Tony Awards
2022, acrylic, paper, and glue on panel, 8″ × 10″
The nominees were limited, and the world was still scary, but in 2022, Broadway at last reopened and the Tony Awards took place at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Pokémon Cards
2021, acrylic on panel, 8″ × 10″
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Cards, be it collecting them, selling them, or leafing through them, became a major hobby of mine during the pandemic.
NYC Landscape
2020, acrylic on canvas panel, 5″ × 7″
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I love to paint small works alongside friends and family who also enjoy creating art. In this case I was painting next to family members who had braved pandemic conditions to come visit New York City. We had seen this view from Lower Manhattan earlier during their visit.
When Broadway Went Dark
2020, acrylic on canvas board, 10″ × 8″
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Walking around Broadway theaters during the pandemic felt like a well-lit, real-life Hadestown, with a small but resilient ghost population who wore masks on their way to the grocery store or laundromat.
Raider of the Expanse
2019, acrylic on paper, 20″ × 24″
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One of my favorite parts about working on a trading card game (called Raiders of the Expanse) was that we needed images for the cards, like this stylish four-handed alien carrying robots and a jetpack.
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Just Like the Ocean
2019, acrylic on panel, 18″ × 24″
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This was a commission for a friend, whose payment was dinner at one of my favorite Brooklyn restaurants.
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Hotel Sunrise
2018, acrylic on canvas, 9″ × 12″
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I was walking around south Brooklyn during the fall and stumbled upon this scene with an ambiguously named hotel/motel and a seedy serenity that felt unlike anywhere else in NYC.
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Portrait of Donald Trump
2017, mixed media collaged on canvas board,
28″ × 22″
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This image is composed out of 22 pieces of junk: cheap books, papers, and objects purchased on eBay for one dollar or less. A sample of each item is included in the central dollar sign, with its cost handwritten on it. Newly-elected Trump, seated at left, had just been elected president for his first term.​
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Dream
2017, Magic: The Gathering cards, paper, and glue on paper, 28″ × 22″
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This work is composed almost entirely out of about 400 trading cards from the strategy card game Magic: The Gathering. I played Magic frequently from 2013 until around 2019. One night I had a dream of being chased along paths in the forest. I don’t personally give much credence to dreams meaning anything, but the image was so vivid I sought to recreate it.
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King Charles IX
2017, catalog pages collaged on paper, 24″ × 36″
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I scoured the pages of art auction catalogues for images of modern and contemporary art I could collage into a portrait of King Charles IX of France, styled after François Clouet’s sixteenth-century paintings of him.