Current Work (2024 – Present)

Living with progressive vision loss anchors my perspective as an artist. This experience drives me to examine how blindness is misrepresented and misunderstood, and to challenge those narratives through my work. Through this lens, my work investigates how assumptions can obscure understanding while reframing narratives of identity and perception. I am also integrating access aesthetics and access intimacy into the design and presentation of my work, treating accessibility not as an afterthought but as a central component of meaning. In this way, access becomes part of how the work is comprehended by all audiences, expanding awareness of our shared human experience.

Unforeseen Impact 

Unforeseen Impact is a series of diptych paintings that document everyday collisions as comic moments, drawing from my lived experience navigating the world with low vision. Each diptych features a pathway obstruction alongside comic-style onomatopoeia, reflecting the indelible auditory and physical aspect of these encounters.

The work employs humor to engage with an uncomfortable subject: how objects in public pathways can injure, embarrass, or exclude. By highlighting these impacts, the series invites viewers to consider the reality of moving through spaces designed with the assumption that everyone can see obstacles before encountering them. Unforeseen Impact explores how these assumptions limit access for the blind and low vision community, while also suggesting a simple truth: design choices that remove unnecessary barriers benefit everyone.

Sight Gag 

Sight Gag is a series of paintings that reframe imagery from the 1977 Scholastic book of comics, What’s New Mister Magoo?, to explore how ableism is embedded in popular culture and how it shapes the lives of the blind and low vision community. The work reflects on both the systemic forces that perpetuate stereotypes and the internalized attitudes that can take root within the community itself. The series invites viewers to question what appears harmless and to recognize its consequences, turning the joke back on itself and challenging audiences to see what has too often gone unacknowledged.

The Faith of Knowing (2013 – 2023)

Crossing the boundaries of time, stories shape our understanding of the world and inform my artistic practice. This work delves into the narratives that have shaped my comprehension of life’s mysteries, particularly those shared by my Irish immigrant father, whose illustrious tales captivated my childhood imagination. Influenced by visual storytelling mediums like picture books, cartoons, and newspaper comics, I draw from materials deeply rooted in my upbringing as the son of a painting contractor—using home siding, book pages, and house paint to recontextualize forms from memory. This process fosters connections between images, text, and materials, exploring the rich mashup of narratives surrounding religion, heritage, identity, and the origins of life