Recorded 11/17/2018

Guitar: Ryan Due
Guitar: Oscar Diez
Drums: Tariq Shah
Bass: Ben Bray
Synth / Cornet / Vocal: George Monteleone

Recording engineer: Oscar Diez
Mix: George Monteleone

Red Road (Reprise)

Currently: Guitarist in SPACE PROGRAM and (sometimes) No Time Time.

Formerly: Guitarist and Vocalist in Hyper Viper, Mauled by Tigers, Dead Batteries, and The Monotone Revelation / Guitarist in Sarah and the Headlights, The Producers, and The Chess Club / Guitarist, Keyboardist, and Vocalist in The Gar / Bassist, Keyboardist, Drummer, Guitarist, and Vocalist in Friar Funk / Keyboardist in Glacier and TKO from Tokyo

My work is my autobiography.  My work plays and questions abstraction and permanence.  The pieces reflect my education in Bauhaus architecture, my explorations of line and content, and my reaction to life in locations discovered through my continued quest for knowledge.

Studying architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, created the basis for the paintings and drawings.  Architecture and structure form the logic behind the way a painting is built and a drawing is constructed.  How do the tools used affect the making of a line or series of lines?  Each work is an answer to a question exploring how marks and gestures can be created to form a complete composition.

Understanding my place in foreign cultures plays a huge part in the development and choices made for the work created there.  Finding the balance of act and consequence within the parameters of an unknown land add the next facet of information and visual expansion.

Abstraction is not a style, but a state of mind…a balance of subtlety and boldness, confidence and risk, the known and that what needs to be found.
