ABOUT
Bio:
I grew up in Cicero, Illinois on the outskirts of Chicago. The industrial landscape and blue-collar town played a key role in creating my sensibility to line and space. The son of an American-German father and a Thai mother influenced the lens I saw the world through. My father drove a pragmatism into me, and my mother developed the dreamer.
At the age of eighteen I left Cicero and hopped a train to Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was eager to find my own way in the world. I pursued photography in my personal time at community colleges in the area and in my early twenties I attended California Institute of The Arts. After one year at CalArts my money ran out and I headed back to the Midwest and resided in St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis I fell back on my printing skills and eventually became an IT professional for a fortune 100 company. I worked for them for a decade and in that time relocated back to Minneapolis and got married. During this decade I still pursued artmaking.
I had enough of corporate life and decided to complete my art studies at the University of Minnesota. Upon completing my degree in art, I obtained studio space in Lowertown St. Paul and began making art full time, working to turn it into a profession. After a successful year of selling art out of the studio, my wife was offered a job in Colorado. We relocated again, and after bouncing around Denver for a few years we settled down in the foothills outside of the metro.
Artist statement:
The world is a noisy place I get lost in. In order to quiet it down I create art. I work in mixed media that employs digital and analog techniques that explore the confluence between the overlooked and beauty.
I use photography to capture my subject matter. In the studio I digitally refine the image to reflect my embodiment of the scene, I then deconstruct and physically rebuild the image to create my art. My method of using; digital printing, acrylic paint, ink, and adhesive makes an artwork that has a unique textural quality and depth that influences the perception of subject.
Currently I am hunting for the line that connects me with the world, and I think it lives in this confluence.
Curriculum Vitae:
Education
University of Minnesota - Bachelor Degree in Art
California Institute of the Arts
Engagements
Art on the Green 2023 - Greenwood Village - Juror
Tenet Podcast 2022 - Featured Artist - Nicholas Kremske — Tenet Podcast-Giving Voice to the Visual Arts
Cherry Creek School District Professional Development Workshop 2022 - Instructor - Centennial, CO
Foothills Art Center 2022 - Artist Talk - Golden, CO
Beijing International Film Academy 2014 - Guest Artist - Introduction to Contemporary American Photography - Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions
Next Gallery - The Way Home 2022 - Lakewood, CO
Next Gallery - Wayfinding: Part One 2021 - Lakewood, CO
Featured artist - Juried ExhibitionS
Curtis Center for the Arts - 40th Annual All Colorado Art Show 2023- Greenwood Village, CO
Baker University - Holt Russell Gallery - Baldwin National 2023 - Baldwin City, KS
D’art Gallery - Spot On #3 2022 - Denver, CO
Curtis Center for the Arts - 39th Annual All Colorado Art Show 2022- Greenwood Village, CO
Arvada Center - Art of the State 2022 - Arvada, CO
Las Laguna Gallery - Best of the Best 2022 - Laguna Beach, CA
D’art Gallery - Spot On #2 2021 - Denver, CO
Core Gallery - A Thousand Words 2021 - Lakewood, CO
Littleton Museum - Eye of the Camera 2021 - Littleton, CO
Foundry Art Centre - Putting It Together 2016 - St. Charles, MO
The Depot Art Gallery - All Colorado Show 2016- Littleton, CO - Honorable Mention
COMMERCIAL COLLECTIONS
Lutheran Medical Center - 2024 - Denver, CO
DAT Logistics - 2023 - Denver, CO
Vectra Bank - 2022 - Denver, CO
Group Exhibitions
Next Gallery - Wanderlust 2021 - Lakewood, CO
SolShine Gallery 2017 - Denver, CO
RPL Gallery 2015 - Saint Paul, MN
Weisman Art Museum - Mirror/Window 2014 - Minneapolis, MN
Beijing Film Academy - Mirror/Window 2014 - Beijing, China
Publication
Written ebook, [blueberry], January 1, 2016, Amazon.com
