Who I Am

    I have been drawing and designing for as long as I can remember, from caricatures of teachers and comic strips for the school paper to tattoos for friends and labels for small businesses. After studying computer animation in Seattle for a couple years, I returned to my hometown of Portland to experiment with painting and illustration, showing with Chris Haberman co-founder of Peoples’ Art of Portland Gallery in 2002. A few years later, while living in New York City, I enjoyed designing graffiti murals and exploring screen-printing with the post-punk garage band Cause Co-Motion! Since moving to San Francisco in 2007, I have furthered my interest in printmaking, discovering a particular passion for letterpress and chiaroscuro woodblock printing. Aesthetically, I am interested in the raw, hand-made studio art feel of Spanish designer/illustrator Chuma and the award winning work of Alberto Russo, founder of Areadesign. I am currently pursuing a BS in Visual Communications Design at San Francisco State University where I have designed an iPhone App, a series of repeating patterns, a book based on a Buckminster Fuller manuscript and multiple woodblock posters. After SFSU, I plan to focus on woodblock poster, stationary, and book design while I search for an old Chandler and Price Craftsman or similar clamshell printing press.

"Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it."

– Richard Brautigan

Quiet – Calm – Artistic – Curious – Intuitive – Just