This artwork is a structuralism associated with Pittura Metafisica, or Metaphysical Painting. It involves a ‘low’ or abyssal Dionysian abstraction, that originated from an interest in bringing the Dionysian into graphic, perspectival, and figurative work. It is related to abstract surrealism and metarealism, but emphasises the particular abstraction and formal interests of the metaphysical painters, which I understand through the tragic, shadow, and withdrawal.

Exhibitions
1998 Nexus Exhibition, group exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California.
1997 Homecoming Exhibition, group exhibition, Sarah Bain Gallery, Fullerton, California.
1996 Small Sacrifices, group exhibition,, Sarah Bain Gallery, Fullerton, California.
1995 Gallery Artists Christmas Exhibition, Sarah Bain Gallery, Fullerton, California.
1995 Untitled, Untethered, Christies auction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
1994-95 Various exhibitions, Gallery 57, Fullerton, California.

Publications
The Black Toad , Mandrake of Oxford (Oxon: 2018).
The Peacock’s Egg, Mandrake of Oxford, (Oxon: 2013).
Anatomy of Light & Dionysian Aesthetics, Troubador Publishing Ltd., Imprint: Matador, (Leicester: 2013).
An Approach to Metaphysical Painting (forthcoming book).

Papers
Nietzsche and de Chirico: Images of the Aeidês, 10th Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Warwick University, Coventry, September 2002.

Reviews & Acclaims
Fortean Times, book review, Issue 372, November, 2018.
Treadwell’s Books, London, “Pick of the Week”, April 2015.
OC Weekly, “Malled Over”, group exhibition review, 1995

Education
MA Painting (with distinction), The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 1998.
BA Painting, San Francisco State University, 1993.