BIOGRAPHY I was born in Des Moines, Iowa and I grew up in Ames, Iowa. I graduated from the University of Iowa in 1994 with a BFA in Printmaking. In 1997 I entered the graduate school at New Mexico State University to study Painting. I received my MFA in Painting in 2000. Since that time I have exhibited widely throughout the US in both national and international juried, group and solo shows. My large- scale work powerfully combines science, nature, process and the imagination. Additionally, I am an artist who is strongly connected to contemporary drawing practice. I have taught art at the El Paso Community College, the University of Texas-El Paso, New Mexico State University, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University. I am a former Full-time Faculty member of Drawing at Iowa State University, and was a Consultant and Co-director of ISU’s Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, ’05-’06 programming, “ Breaking the Creative Barriers: The Arts and Sciences in Collaboration.” symposium and exhibition. Currently I am an artist-in-residence at The Octagon Center for the Arts, in Ames, Iowa, and an Adjunct Instructor of studio art at the Des Moines Area Community College. I have a studio and live in Ames, Iowa with my wife and two daughters ages 3 and 6.