Gallery 1837 1837 W. Grand Ave. Chicago 60622 312/829-1116

My brand new and totally improved website is up and running and includes recent paintings added to the New York Series Galleries. New York show My paintings will be included in a two-person exhibition at the J. Cacciola Gallery in Chelsea this summer. Save the date:

Opening Reception Thursday June 28 from 6-8 pm J. Cacciola Gallery 537 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011

Milan show If you're visiting Italy this summer and are in the Milan area, please stop by the Barbara Frigerio Gallery. My paintings will be included in a summer group exhibition in June.

Barbara Frigerio Gallery Via Fatebenefratelli 13 20121 Milano

Folio Leaf Last but not least: Several of my oils on prepared paper can be found on Folio Leaf, a website that features works on paper.

Deer skeleton, blanched bones, ribs like broken

bed slats, one pointing leg still furred as a

woman’s arm in winter. Wildflowers

wind into a shopping cart’s plastic weave—

at the remaining wheels, orange paintbrush lurks

among red milkweed. Ballet flats without

ribbons wait. Guard rail twisted like cursive.

Up ahead, the granite mouth of the cliffs

slowly swallows the road’s tongue, and with it,

the line of vehicles waiting, ready

to disappear deep in the cliff’s belly,

to corrode, become the fossils of cars.

Estrella was a photograph from Honduras
Rather Estrella was a girl from Honduras
Estrella was not her name
Her name is not remembered

Estrella was twelve I was fifteen
I slept on the floor Estrella slept on dirt
I thought we were poor I thought
there was nothing to eat
my mother would find a can of green beans
and say you’re wrong

For twenty one dollars a month I kept Estrella alive
it was an awful lot of responsibility

My mother said money was too tight
when she’d say this I pictured
the skin pulled over Estrella’s distended belly

Starvation leads to apathy
the counselor said when lecturing us
about eating disorders
Your body begins to consume itself

I pictured her stomach deflating
sucking in on itself like a black hole

there went the eye-stars
there went the heart-nova

"Born in New York, raised in Yorktown, Virginia, I am currently an MFA student in Richmond, VA. I don't have any pets but I do sometimes stroke my roommate and occassionally, when he's up for it, he purrs. I enjoy hoarding things and hope to one day have enough money to be considered eccentric instead of weird. I hate goofy bios and I'm crippled with self loathing."