I am a juried artist at the Tallgrass Art Gallery and a member of the Frankfort Art Association and Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists.
I paint in acrylics in a realistic manner. I incorporate a variety of subjects including people, animals and classic cars.
I live in Illinois and have my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. I have been creating art since I was a child and always had a desire to pursue this field more as an adult. While raising my family and working my fulltime IT job, I took group acrylic painting lessons from Fred Holly at the Vogt Visual Art Center in Tinley Park. Fred painted in a hyper realistic manner and I attended his nightly classes for almost 2 years. I brought in my ongoing painting projects each week and Fred taught me how to figure out my light source, mix my colors and make objects look 3-Dimensional using shadows and highlights. He was very influential on me as an artist. I took what I learned from him and have been painting in acrylics for the last 20 years.
I have worked in downtown Chicago for the last 36 years and love the city. Many of my Chicago themed paintings come from the photos that I have taken over the years.
Exhibitions
2026 Bridgeport Art Gallery, Chicago, IL Juried Group Show “Pictures of You”
2025 Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Chicago, IL Juried Group Show “Winter Season Exhibition”
2025 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “From the Artist’s Viewpoint”
2025 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Spectral Splendor”
2025 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Micro/Macro” 1st Place
2025 Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL Juried Art Fair “Old Town Art Fair”
2025 Bridgeport Art Gallery, Chicago, IL Juried Group Show “Landscape is Changing”
2025 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Backwards/Sideways”
2024 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Invitational “Four Real”
2024 Frankfort Art Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Art on the Green” 1st Place
2024 Tallgrass Art Gallery Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Water Works”
2024 Gallery C, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Destination Unknown
2023 Bridgeport Art Gallery, Chicago, IL Juried Group Show “Sweet Home Chicago”
2023 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Anthology”
2023 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Art Fair “Art on the Green”
2023 Bucktown Arts Festival, Chicago IL Juried Art Fair “Bucktown Arts Festival”
2023 Frankfort Gallery C, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Power of Light” 2nd Place
2023 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Windows and Doors”
2022 McCord Gallery, Palso Park, IL Juried Group Show “Unmasked”
2022 Valparaiso Popcorn Festival, Valparaiso, IN Juried Art Fair “Popcorn Festival”
2022 Orland Park Arts and Drafts, Orland Park, IL Juried Art Fair “Arts and Drafts”
2022 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Ta-Da”
2022 Frankfort Gallery C, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Power of Light”
2022 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Ta-Da”
2022 Frankfort Gallery C, Frankfort, IL Juried Group Show “Wild Things”
2022 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Art Fair “Art on the Green” 2nd Place
2022 Liccar Corral Gallery, Crete, IL Invitational “Winter Showcase”
2021 Crete Creative Gallery, Crete, IL Juried Group Show “Regional Showcase”
2021 Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, IL Juried Art Fair “Art on the Green” 1st Place
2021 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Reunion”
2021 Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL Juried Group Show “Annual Show”
2021 Frankfort Art Association Juried Group Show “Into the Light”
2021 Frankfort Art Association Juried Group Show “Homegrown Pride”
2021 Vogt Visual Art Center, Tinley Park, IL Juried Group Show “Things that I Love”
2021 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Emerging Perspective”
2021 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Moo, Baa, Roar” Honorable Mntn
2021 Tallgrass Art Gallery, Park Forest, IL Juried Group Show “Hot Wheels”
