Born 1973, Kansas City, Missouri.
BFA, 1995 Kansas City Art Institute
Currently living in Brooklyn.

My paintings inhabit their own unique space, while drawing from numerous sources, both traditional and contemporary. Straddling the line between abstract and representational imagery, my work contains elements of refined craft while also embracing an intuitive technique and a certain amount of crudeness. The imagery leads to a subconscious terrain, where elemental forces offer insight to the struggles and joys of an earthly existence.

Selected exhibitions
Solo & Two person
2010 New Work, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 Works on Paper, Holiday, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Targets and Trophies, Motel Gallery, Portland, OR. With Kim Hamblin
2001 Not Now, Ryman Gallery, Long Island City, NY. With Matt Crane
1999 Red Chair Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996 Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO

Group shows
2010 No Plans for Today, Funtimes Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Group Show, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angles, CA
2010 100 Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2010 Paper!Awesome!, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2010 Frest StART, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Swipple & Gold, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Art Small Enough to Swallow, Williamsburg Mini Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Swipple, Max Fish, New York, NY
2009 ABCyz Benefit Exhibition, Silver Shed, New York, NY
2009 Beyond Bounds, Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
2009 Censor Approved, The Dolphin, Kansas City, MO
2009 Works on Paper, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
2008 Jen Bekman, X Marks the Art, New York, NY
2008 Swipple, Max Fish, New York, NY
2008 Landscape Portrait Pattern, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 For Art's Sake, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2008 A Soft Place to Land, The Outsider's Studio, Livingston Manor, NY
2008 Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2007 The Swipple Has Landed!, Max Fish, New York, NY
2007 Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2007 Ill Fitting (27 Sizes), Swipple group show, RC Art Gallery, Ann Harbor, MI
2006 Group Art Show Part II, Echo Curio, LA, CA
2006 Group Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2005 Two For The See-saw, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC. Curated by Bill Thelen
2005 Paper!Awesome!, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Ky Anderson, Rachell Sumpter & Megan Whitmarsh, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2004 Homecoming, The Bank, Kansas City, MO
2004 Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2004 Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC
2003 Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2003 Anima/Botanica, Branch Gallery, NY, NY

Artists Registries
The Drawing Center
Artist Space

Permanent Collections
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
H&R Block, Kansas City, Mo
Private collections around the world