who 

kevin was born in Georgia in 1963. he grew up in New Jersey, Hawaii, Kansas and Virginia.  he has lived in San Francisco since 1993, where to make money for paint and brushes and metal leaf he works as a drug counselor.

what

kevin's pictures are made on found glass. large pieces are made on wood-framed window panes; kevin feels that windows tell a story in and of themselves, having been looked through from both sides when people look out into their environment while their environment looks back at them.

when making smaller pieces, kevin scours thrift shops and estate sales for abandoned picture frames. if a frame has something in it, kevin leaves whatever was framed behind the piece when the glass is returned to its frame and hung for display. 

regardless the size or provenance, kevin tries to keep the weathered and worn state of the the window or picture frame intact, at most sanding them a bit so no one gets a splinter.

when glass is scarce or becomes too much a rote exercise, kevin works on scraps of plywood. these pieces incorporate the same materials as his glass pieces. and the process is similar except that the piece is worked forward instead of backward.

kevin uses found objects as templates and makes pictures using acrylic paint, metal leaf and appropriated paper. he tends to work in spurts and when he decides to make a piece he hops into it without much of a plan. this way he can get, be and stay excited about a piece, seeing where it goes or doesn't as it comes together.

kevin has worked on commission. he was asked to make a series of four botanical images for photo contest winners who subscribe to an online horticultural journal.  more recently he crafted a piece involving wrestling singlets, made for someone who gave the piece to a friend as a gift; kevin was surprised and pleased to meet the recipient of this piece several months later.

kevin's work is in several personal collections in the city of San Francisco. his work is also held in collections in Anchorage, Hokum and Jarfalla (Sweden), Kea'au, London, Los Angeles, Miami, the city and suburbs of New York, urban and rural North Carolina, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Washington, DC.
 

why

"i enjoy making art, so i do it. i am pleased with recent efforts and the resulting work. image repetition is how it makes sense to me and so i spend my art-making time on large pieces that are explosions of shapes and colors and reflective silver leaf.  for a while now i've been immersed in composing pictures using only geometry and color. it's a more intuitive process, giving me freedom to create in a way that really flows."