I am a Canadian born artist who has worked in New York City since 1995. I use different mediums such as acrylic paint, ink and pencil to create different bodies of work. I was an active participant in the vibrant Williamsburg 90s visual art community. During that time worked as an assistant to legendary figures such as famed SoHo gallery owner Holly Solomon, the estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and worked and performed with the legendary new media artist Nam June Paik. These experiences influenced me. Since my arrival in New York, I have been developing my own creative language that synthesizes the use of abstraction, architectural structure and pattern. Now in my South Bronx studio, my work is informed by the architecture and the local walls and bridges. Architecture, construction, demolition and urban textures were born out of the enormous growth and development in the Toronto downtown I saw while growing up. This environment formed my concept of abstraction as an activity of continual process. I view painting as a construction site of ideas, in the process of becoming something, like a city itself. This process begins from a simple sketch, photo, or general idea. These are then realized as a series of images on canvas or paper. I allow myself open time and space to stretch out visual ideas without a definitive stopping point. Recently, I have an interest in built forms in the insect world and the mutable nature of deteriorating structures. My works focus on the color, texture, and the line of urbanization. Currently, I am incorporating found sedimentary stones in my paint after pulverizing them at the studio. This allows the paintings to incorporate texture with architectural abstraction in a new way.