Bio
I was born in Manhattan in the seventies. We moved to LA when I was 3
and I grew up in Santa Monica, California. After going to NYU Film School for a while
I transferred to San Francisco State University to later graduate with a degree
in industrial art. After college, and working as a designer for a time,
I kept making art outside of ‘work’ with investigations in new media, photography,
drawing, and sculpture. I returned to school for an MFA in art at Mills College
and I completed it in the spring of 2006. Currently, I’m an assistant professor
of art and design at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
My work explores personal tensions—American and Israeli, gay and married,
coastal and Midwestern to name a few—and these tensions are the source
of balance, beauty, symbolism, and narrative in my work. My images and objects
explore themes such as the construction and dissemination of masculinity;
personal geographies and remapping of memory; and bi-nationality
and displacement.