I grew up in Redding, California.

I received my BFA from Long Beach State and my MFA from UC Irvine.

I work as a professor of Sculpture at Merced College.

I am a process-based conceptual artist who works in several different 3-D and 2-D mediums including casting, printmaking, painting, ceramics, and installation art. I conceive of my artistic practice as a house built from four interrelated but distinct themes; functionality, aesthetics, semiotics, and the social and personal nature of art objects. My work often plays with the tension between the autonomous art object and the exhibition space.

I reside in Merced, California with my wife and three sons (my greatest art projects to date).