ABOUT
Team
We consist of a small but powerful team. My twin daughters and I do all the work. They can't really work a pencil just yet (or a brush) but they are best in providing all the inspiration I need. Also they make sure I get up very early in the morning and get to work.
Having been trained in the art schools and having completed two professional degrees in architecture I concluded that art, portraiture in particular is my total passion. I am afraid that any minute spend away from my easel, my daughters and designing architectural space is a minute irreversibly lost -- I wish to spend the rest of my life chasing the ephemeral -- trying to capture human soul and character of space.
Artist Statement
Total beauty is contained within immediate presence of things. My artist's task is simple -- I am to be a lens that focuses the light of awesome beauty of this world upon my canvas. The role of my talent and skill is simple -- to fix this projected beauty to the surface of my board for you to enjoy. Your face, my face, her face, our bodies -- all is divine in its harmonious order. Grace that permeates the world around me, around you, around all of us is overwhelming -- the only thing I can think of all day long is How Can I Posses It All how can I pin it all to my canvas?
It revealed to me, through the years of training, searching, and wondering, that realism provides the best way to posses and share the total beauty of the living world. I search for the wonderful, using my skill and talent I capture the wonderful, and I share with others who like to see.
Old masters techniques are to be revered. The artists I quote in my working afforded the time to think and discover the most efficient ways to capture the ephemeral and ineffable -- the character and human soul. Rembrandt, Titan and Vermeer bestow particular inspiration upon my work. In twenty-first century one can't afford enough time to reinvent the traditional ways. Also I embrace the contemporary with its zeal and its search for wonder. I wonder. I wonder about the nature of things, about how world came into being, I wonder about people who will pick up the brush after me. I wonder about human character. So after all, I like to reinvent some tradition. I like to create small revolutions.
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Bio
EDUCATION
06.16-ppresents
Watt Atelier. Classical Fine Art School
09.14-06.16
University of Texas at Arlington College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs
Masters of Architecture
09.2007-09.2012
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Bachelor of Architecture
09.2005-09.2006
Bennington College
Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Completed three semesters of study)
09.2003-08.2005
Huntington School of Fine Arts
Studio Art
PROFESSIONAL
09.2013-present
ARCHITECTURAL CONTRACTOR. FK Design.
Creating Construction Documents Sets. Participating in Design Development. Developing Design Ideas with clients.
09.2014-present
INSTRUCTOR. University of Texas at Arlington
Teaching the Undergraduate Studios
Creating curriculum for freshmen students in architecture, interior design and landscape architecture
INSTRUCTOR/TEACHER . Huntington Fine Arts
Taught Drawing, Sculpture, and Painting Classes
Leading the class critiques
Created lessons to help high school students acquire
necessary skills for entrance into higher level academic environment
09.2009-06.2010
INSTRUCTOR/TEACHER . Cooper Union Saturday Program
Taught Drawing classes to high school student and led critiques
Developed Lessons intended to provide student with necessary skills
for entrance into the collegiate environment
Awards
05.2016
OPEN JURIES SHOW . Trinity Arts Guild, Bedford TX
3rd place in Dry Media Category
04.2015
HENRY JAMES AWARD . UTA Arlington TX
AIA National award
For outstanding professional and academic promise
06.2015
KROB COMPETITION . Dallas TX
Two entries selected as Finalists
World wide competition in architectural drawing
06.2015
WINNER OF COMISSION: PAINTING ‘Opera Singer’ Oil on Canvas 5’ x 8’
Private Comission
05.2015
WORK CITED In ‘Open City’ by Diane Lewis
Studio Project Cited
11.2014
KROB COMPETITION . Hosted at HKS . Dallas TX
Two entries selected as Finalists
World wide competition in architectural drawing
10.2014
DRAWING FROM THE ARCHIVE . RETROSPECTIVE . Cooper Union . New York NY
Work Selected "St Ivo"
10.2014
INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL COMPETITION . New York NY
Work Selected "Planning the Journey." First place out of a 100 winners
09.2014
FULL GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP . University of Texas . Arlington TX
Recipient of the full scholarship and stipend for the four semesters of study. Graduate professional degree in architecture
05.2006
FULL UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP . Cooper Union . New York NY
Recipient of the full scholarship for ten semesters of study. Undergraduate professional degree in architecture
05.2005
FIRST PLACE NYS FILM COMPETITION: FULL SCHOLARSHIP NYSSSA . Ithaca . New York NY
Recipient of the full scholarship for intensive film school program
05.2003
DRAWING COMPETITION GRAND PRIZE: FULL SCHOLORSHIP HSFA . Huntington . New York NY
Recipient of the full scholorship for intensive film school program