"Life is not
a support system
for art.
It is the other
way around."
--Stephen King

"If I could
say it in words
there would be
no reason to paint."
--Edward Hopper

"Sometimes I've
believed as many
as six impossible
things before
breakfast."
--Lewis Carroll

Education
M.F.A. Academy of Art University, San Francisco CA: Traditional Illustration
B.A. Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA: Art and English (cum laude)

Some Clients and Associates

Cemetery Dance Magazine	Cemetery Dance Publications
Bad Moon Books	Dark Regions/Ghost House
Undertow Books	Tasmaniac Publications
Lonely Road Books	ZBS Foundation
Random House/Doubleday

Most Recent Commissions
Interior illustrations for Stephen King's IT: 25th Anniversary Edition--Cemetery Dance
Interior illustrations for Gene O'Neill's Taste of Tenderloin from Dark Regions Press
Cover and interior illustrations for Greg Gifune's A View from the Lake --Bad Moon Books
Interior illustrations for Tony Richards' Our Lady of Shadows--Dark Regions/Ghost House
Interior artwork for The Vampyricon Trilogy by Douglas Clegg, special edition--Lonely Road Books
Cover artwork for Apparitions, a collection of ghost stories from Undertow Books
Interior artwork commissioned for Dueling Minds, Cemetery Dance anthology
Cover and interior artwork commissioned for Quill and Candle, Dark Regions/Ghost House
Illustration selected for the cover of Cemetery Dance Magazine, upcoming issue
Interior illustrations for Cemetery Dance Magazine: Issues #59, #61, #64, and #65

Honors and Exhibitions
Works shown at Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, 2010–11
Solo show at Borderlands Café, San Francisco, October 7 - November 2, 2010
"Lost Fish" purchased for Coe College's Permanent Collection
Coe College alumni exhibition, visiting artist and art show
"Arrival of the Train" featured in Juxtapoz' Reader Art
"Ghost of a House" and "Voice in the Attic," included in a juried handmade book show at the
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Five works included in "1000 Postcards," Green Lantern Gallery, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
"Yellow Carousel Horse" and "Arrival of the Train" exhibited in the Illustration West 44
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Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles: Two Certificates of Merit, Illustration West 44
Halloween/Folk-Fantasy Art Show, Group Exhibit at Canvas Gallery: San Francisco
Drawings exhibited by Studiolo Gallery, Iowa City IA
Internship at Purgatory Pie Press, NYC
Internship at the studio of Hannah Wilke, NYC