studio:

Bread and Puppet’s cheap art manifesto (above) has hung on my wall for nearly a decade. “Why Cheap Art?” it asks. “Art is like good bread! Art is like green trees!” Wakes up sleepers, fights war and stupidity, sings halleluja. All good things, sorely needed, true then as it is now: cheap art is a constant companion there to cradle me between the rock of overwrought wall text and the hard place of ai slop deli menus.

Cheap art, loosely defined, can be made anywhere, by anyone, in a fit of any or no particular feeling. For me, lately, that has meant hours spent wrecking my posture at the kitchen table, smudging fragments of a visual vocabulary I’ve developed over the years into little pieces of paper. When the shit starts to feel heavy, I sit down and draw. It doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just something that’s in the world.

Plus, I’m having a lot of fun with it. I draw with friends who come over with coffee and donuts, and I draw while my partner is washing dishes and singing along to The Pogues, and I draw with the windows open because it’s fall now and I like listening to the rowers shouting across the Cooper River on Sunday mornings.

A consequence of all this drawing is I now have a lot of drawings sitting around. And what to do with an overabundance of small works and bills to pay? Small works group shows, of course, of which there are plenty right now due to the rapid approach of the holiday season and the ongoing collapse of the mid-tier gallery system and contemporary art market in general.

exhibitions, etc:

• Hyperfocus Horror Issue 03: Interview with the founder of Hyperfocus Horror (imprint of HNDL Magazine), Izzy Amber, who is lovely and asked such thoughtful questions. We chatted about my connection to nature and how OCD impacts my work. I’m also honored to have my painting through (2025) featured on the cover.

• current group show: What the Land Remembers | Center For Environmental Transformation, Camden, NJ | Oct 3 - Nov 20

• upcoming group show: Wooden Nickel | Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA | Dec 4 - 20, 2026, preview event December 2

• upcoming group show: Small Works To-Go II | Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA | Nov 6, 2026 - Jan 4, 2027, opening Nov 6, 6 - 8 pm

• upcoming group show: Small Works | Seven Arts Framing, Philadelphia, PA | Nov 6, 2026 - Jan 9, 2027, opening Nov 6, 5 - 8 pm

• upcoming group show: 3rd Annual 12×12 Art Show | Launderette Records, Philadelphia, PA | Nov 21, 2026 - Jan 31, 2027, opening Nov 21, 6 - 10 pm

• featured retail artist: I’m honored to be selected as one of Little Death Art’s fall 2026 retail artists—browse on their webshop or at one of their upcoming pop-up events

  

PS: if you live in Florida and voted for Angie Nixon, THANK YOU I LOVE YOU. That the margin was so close is both heartbreaking and heartmending. I love my home state, I’ll never stop loving my home state, and I’ll never stop loving the people who recognize everything it can and ought to be and keep fighting for it no matter the odds.