ARTIST STATEMENT

I approach furniture-making with a broad skill set in order to design and construct one of kind pieces. I am moved by my fascination with control and perfection of form, which has fueled my interest in woodworking—a practice and detail driven endeavor in itself. My process is dominated by scrupulous attention to detail—beginning with a drawing, to a scale drawing, a model, and ultimately, to life. The end product features an architectural aesthetic which harnesses natural material within a geometrical and line-driven structure. The fluid synthesis of material and form suggests unreality and forces the viewer to consider illusive and undeniably complicated contour and joinery. I take great pride in my work, not only because of the value of the material, but also the process itself, which reanimates once living material with a life that will extend beyond myself.


BIO

Born in Albany, New York, raised outside Boston and Philadelphia, I grew up with an appreciation for change. Diversity in environment has not only exposed me to art and culture but it has also helped shape me into the person I am today. Heavily influenced by the past, spatial variation has been an inspiration in my attempts at creating something new, not strictly in design, but in the materials chosen for my work.

My inspiration for design has been heavily influenced by the early American Craft movement, specifically Wharton Esherick’s work, which has been a ubiquitous fixture of my life. Growing up a mile away from his home and workshop (now museum), and living in Philadelphia for more than ten years, it has been impossible not to be moved by his art.

I acquired my initial woodworking skill set between High School and College through classes and jobs during the summers. In the summer of 2012 and 2013 I was given the opportunity to design and engineer the 9th and 10th annual Phoenixville Firebird: a 30-foot wooden sculpture that is burned every solstice to represent the revival of the once thriving steel mill town. 

In 2013, I graduated from Tyler School of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentrated in sculpture. Over the next few years, my love for fine furniture grew after working for multiple high end furniture manufacturing companies in Philadelphia. Since then I have worked as a carpenter on films outside Philadelphia and started my own company, designing and fabricating my own furniture. I continue to evolve and grow as an artist, a fine woodworker, and a designer in an attempt bring my visions to life.