1. Personal Statement
I’ve been interested in art since the 6th grade, but I really became involved in it when I
attended my first year at Princeton Day School. I enrolled in PDS’s “Intro to Fine Art,” taught by Jerry
Hirniak, my freshman year, and carried on in the “Fine Arts” Major during junior year. Throughout life
I’ve found that art is sort of a bridge that I could use to translate what was going on in my head without
sitting down and writing a formal paper on what I was experiencing. I’ve always been an absolutely
relentless perfectionist in literature; every story goes extra lengths to tell the reader what I mean about
something- I attack it, doggedly, at every angle. But art is a sort of language; a splash of paint on canvas
that, with a single glimpse, can convey to even the most untrained eye emotions of anger, confusion,
chaos, and sometimes indefinable joy. Art for me is a way to communicate stories and ideas, the little
thoughts that I caught the tail end of before they flit through my head at light speed and then disappear.
I’ve become extremely passionate about social commentary and historical events, as well as examining
the shadow of people’s influence over one another. The Hooded Figure is my observation on the
influences of racism during our childhoods (be it through our parents, environment, media or
otherwise) that mutate when we grow and leave lasting imprints of hate and bigotry.
The following images were produced in 2 classes at PDS. They incorporate work done in
painting and drawing and in multiple mediums. Some of the works are directly related to class
assignments, while another group of the works revolve around subjects of specific interests to me.

2. Foundation Studies

3. “Snow Leopard” Ink Mark Circle- 18” x 24”
Ink

4. Mark Scale & Shape 18“ x 24“
Ink

5. Wash Landscape Study- 10 ¾” x 14 ¾”
Wash, Acrylic

6. Large Stich Nest- 18” x 24”
Ink

7. Large Stich Shell- 18” x 24”
Ink

8. Contour X-Y Cylinders- 18” x 24”
Ink and colored pencil

9. Formal Color Study- 11” x 10”
Acrylic

10. Color Study: Green on Red- 15” x 11”
Acrylic

11. Charcoal Still Life- 29 ¾” x 22”

12. Surrealist Automatic Drawing- 5” x 5”
Colored pencil
4/1/09

13. Surrealist Automatic Drawing- 5” x 5 ¼”
Colored pencil
4/1/09

14. Transparency Drawing- 24” x 19”
Colored pencil

15. Advanced Studio Practice

16. Brown Paper Drawing- 35 ¾” x 48”
Acrylic, ochre, charcoal

17. Bone Study- 45 1/4 “ x 50”
Charcoal

18. “Carolyn” Portrait- 36" x 50 ½”
Lead pencil

19. “Carolyn” Portrait w/ Acetate Overlay- 36" x 50 ½”
Sharpie, Acrylic

20. “Carolyn” Portrait/Acetate Overlay Close-Up- 36" x 50 ½”
Acetate Overlay- Sharpie, Acrylic

22. Gesture/ Mark- 18” x 24”
Ink

23. Gesture Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

24. Tonal Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

25. Massing Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

26. Gesture Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

27. Contour Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

28. Gesture/Major-Minor Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

29. Large Gesture Figure- 18” x 24”
Ink

30. Blind Contour Face- 18” x 24”
Ink

31. Blue on Black Tone Study- 19 ¾” x 25 ½”
Chalk, colored paper
2/17/2011

32. Light/Medium on Red- 19 ¾” x 25 ½”
Chalk, colored paper
2/17/2011

33. Dark-Light Study- 19 ¾” x 25 ½”
Chalk, colored paper
2/17/2011

34. Figure White on Black- 22 ¼” x 30”
chalk on colored paper

35. Hooded Figure- 47 ¾“ x 80”
Wash, acrylic

36. The following seven slides are from
a suite of small figural drawings

37. “Inspiration”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, wash, ink

38. “Roman Ruins”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, wash

39. “Yucatan Ascent”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, ink, acrylic

40. “DXM”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, ink

41. “Atmo IV”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, acrylic

42. “Ivory Coast”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, ink

43. “Seraphim Lucifer”- 15” x 19”
Gouache, wash