I’m known for my narrative paintings of solitary figures and my haunting interiors. 

At the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts my teachers provided encouragement and high expectations. A highlight of my early training was working in the studio of New Orleans artist Emery Clark. After a fellowship at Yale Norfolk School of Art, I earned art degrees at Louisiana State University, Purdue University and Queens College.  My work has been exhibited in Indiana, New York, Virginia, Idaho and Louisiana. My work is represented by the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana.

My wife Melissa “Sasi” Chambers and I banded together with a group of local Boise artists to form the Treasure Valley Artists Alliance, a non-profit with a mission to serve local artists. My involvement in TVAA provided opportunities to collaborate with other artists and to raise awareness of the local art scene.

My paintings have been the subject of numerous solo shows in New Orleans and Boise, including the Character Development exhibition at Boise State University’s Trueblood pop-up gallery, the Ghost Hunting exhibition at Evermore Prints in Boise, and Houseghosts at the Carol Robinson Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The City of Boise commissioned me to create an image for a traffic control box — you can see it at the corner of Main and 23rd Streets. I was honored to receive grants from the Alexa Rose Foundation and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

n everything upside down to correct things, repaint, and retry. The lines and layers of the final image give it a history. If you look hard, you’ll see evidence where an eyebrow moved down on a face or a window in an interior faintly appears behind what’s now a blank wall, or where a shadow behind an figure looks a lot like it might’ve once been an angel’s wing. This process gives the picture a kind of Past Life that makes it more interesting. If you want to know the truth, this is how I play.

Where can you find my work?

Carol Robinson Gallery represents my work in New Orleans, Louisiana.