Digital noise is the experience, oil paint is the art

Digital noise is the experience, oil paint is the art

Painting is the zombie of mediums – always about to die, never quite makes it to dead. Mine starts on a screen. The digital pieces are the backend and my paintings in reverse: algorithmic, prompt-based, the half-life of a piece before it’s finished and after it’s done.

EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

“I Remember” at Rose Center for the Arts

“I Remember” at Rose Center for the Arts

“Hey Kiddo” at Red Brick Aspen

“Hey Kiddo” at Red Brick Aspen

Informal video of artist talk at The Art Base

Informal video of artist talk at The Art Base

Press Links for Once When I Was You at The Art Base

Press Links for Once When I Was You at The Art Base

Recent exhibitions include the Rose Center for the Arts in Longview, Washington, The Art Base in Basalt, and Crested Butte Center for the Arts. Group shows include Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen. My work is held in private collections in London, Chicago, Denver, and Detroit.

Recent exhibitions include the Rose Center for the Arts in Longview, Washington, The Art Base in Basalt, and Crested Butte Center for the Arts. Group shows include Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen. My work is held in private collections in London, Chicago, Denver, and Detroit.

THE WORK
THE WORK

  • Elapsed Turbulence, Algorithmic Retake
    Medium: Digital, Algorithmic
  • 7,917 Hours Ago
    7,917 Hours Ago
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Height: 72 inches
    Width: 144 inches
    Year: 2026
    Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA

  • Elapsed Turbulence
    Medium: Digital, Algorithmic

  • Version 1 Elapsed Turbulance
    Medium: Digital, Algorithmic
  • The Longest Way to the End
    The Longest Way to the End
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Height: 36 inches
    Width: 48 inches
    Year: 2025
    Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO
  • Was It Only Last Summer
    Was It Only Last Summer
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Height: 48 inches
    Width: 60 inches
    Year: 2025
    Shown at: 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO
  • Storm Flower
    Storm Flower
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Height: 48 inches
    Width: 60 inches
    Year: 2025
    Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO
  • SOLD! What We Remember
    SOLD! What We Remember
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Height: 72 inches
    Width: 120 inches
    Year: 2024
    Shown at: 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO
  • Left in the Flowers
    Left in the Flowers
    Medium: Oil on Canvas
    Height: 60 inches
    Width: 48 inches
    Year: 2024
    Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO, 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO

Elapsed Turbulence, Algorithmic Retake
Medium: Digital, Algorithmic
7,917 Hours Ago
7,917 Hours Ago
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 72 inches
Width: 144 inches
Year: 2026
Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA

Elapsed Turbulence
Medium: Digital, Algorithmic

Version 1 Elapsed Turbulance
Medium: Digital, Algorithmic
The Longest Way to the End
The Longest Way to the End
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 36 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2025
Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO
Was It Only Last Summer
Was It Only Last Summer
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2025
Shown at: 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO
Storm Flower
Storm Flower
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2025
Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO
SOLD! What We Remember
SOLD! What We Remember
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 72 inches
Width: 120 inches
Year: 2024
Shown at: 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO
Left in the Flowers
Left in the Flowers
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2024
Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO, 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO
The Inevitable Moon
The Inevitable Moon
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 72 inches
Year: 2024
Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO
SOLD! Will You Find Me?
SOLD! Will You Find Me?
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2023
Shown at: 2024 March 8–24, Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Once When I Was You II, Crested Butte, CO
Heart Breech II
Heart Breech II
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2023
Shown at: 2024 March 8–24, Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Once When I Was You II, Crested Butte, CO
Overwhelming Nothing
Overwhelming Nothing
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 36 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2023
Shown at: 2026 February 16–March 12, Rose Center for the Arts, Forsberg Gallery, Longview, WA, 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO, 2024 March 8–24, Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Once When I Was You II, Crested Butte, CO, 2023 Next Gallery, Once When I Was You, Lakewood, CO, 2023 Niza Knoll, A.I.-Morphosis: Exploring the Fusion of Human and Machine in Visual Art, Denver, CO
Untitled
Untitled
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2024
Shown at: 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO, 2024 March 8–24, Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Once When I Was You II, Crested Butte, CO
Running Games
Running Games
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2023
Shown at: 2025 August 14–October 17, Hey Kiddo, Red Brick Aspen, Aspen, CO, 2024 November 15–December 7, The Art Base, Once When I Was You III, Basalt, CO, 2024 March 8–24, Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Once When I Was You II, Crested Butte, CO
Sleeper
Sleeper
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2023
SOLD! The Landing
SOLD! The Landing
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 36 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2022
1982
1982
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2022
Shown at: 2022 SassaBird Fine Art Gallery, Unnatural Series, Denver, CO
Off the Air
Off the Air
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 72 inches
Year: 2022
Shown at: 2022 SassaBird Fine Art Gallery, Unnatural Series, Denver, CO
Waiting, Wading
Waiting, Wading
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2022
Shown at: 2022 SassaBird Fine Art Gallery, Unnatural Series, Denver, CO, 2022 ArtPrize, Atwater Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
Melted Tree
Melted Tree
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 72 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2022
Shown at: 2022 SassaBird Fine Art Gallery, Unnatural Series, Denver, CO, 2022 ArtPrize, Atwater Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI
The Doorway
The Doorway
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2022
Shown at: 2022 SassaBird Fine Art Gallery, Unnatural Series, Denver, CO, 2022 ArtPrize, Atwater Brewery, Grand Rapids, MI, 2022 Core New Art Space, Friends Like These, Lakewood, CO
Sold! It Happened Here
Sold! It Happened Here
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 36 inches
Year: 2022
BURN SERIES
BURN SERIES
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 120 inches
Year: 2021
DON’T STOP
DON’T STOP
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2019
Shown at: 2021 The Waiting Room Gallery, Straddling the Line, Denver CO
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 72 inches
Year: 2020
Shown at: 2021 40 West Arts, I HEART…, Lakewood, CO
JOSIE’S PAINTING
JOSIE’S PAINTING
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 60 inches
Width: 48 inches
Year: 2020
Shown at: 2021 40 West Arts, I HEART…, Lakewood, CO
SLICE
SLICE
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 48 inches
Width: 72 inches
Year: 2020
ICEFALL
ICEFALL
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 72 inches
Width: 60 inches
Year: 2020
Shown at: 2021 40 West Arts, I HEART…, Lakewood, CO
IN THE STUDIO NOW
IN THE STUDIO NOW

I code and I paint. Planning the next painting, which will be the reverse of “What We Remember” on the first slide. The next two slides are the start of my digital process to sketch my next painting. One is the literal visual reverse of WWR, which I’ll probably project on my canvas to start.

I code and I paint. Planning the next painting, which will be the reverse of “What We Remember” on the first slide. The next two slides are the start of my digital process to sketch my next painting. One is the literal visual reverse of WWR, which I’ll probably project on my canvas to start.

The Gaze…training a model on myself painting and the paintings

The Gaze…training a model on myself painting and the paintings

I code and I paint. Conversations with Claude, changing my AI piece "Elapsed Turbulence" based on the painting "7,917 Hours Ago" into something different as a digital half-life.

I code and I paint. Conversations with Claude, changing my AI piece "Elapsed Turbulence" based on the painting "7,917 Hours Ago" into something different as a digital half-life.

Thinking through 7,917 Hours Ago as a digital half-life

Thinking through 7,917 Hours Ago as a digital half-life

I code and I paint. This documents a piece I made in collaboration with Claude — a generative algorithm built from two oil paintings and the relationship between them. The first painting is finished. The Longest Way to the End is about the moment a relationship ends — not the slow unraveling, but the reality of it in a world that is increasingly post-reality. And post-truth. Where even am I? Only my internal state is real, and when that is upended I feel like I match the world. On fire, and not what I pictured when I was a kid at ALL.

I code and I paint. This documents a piece I made in collaboration with Claude — a generative algorithm built from two oil paintings and the relationship between them. The first painting is finished. The Longest Way to the End is about the moment a relationship ends — not the slow unraveling, but the reality of it in a world that is increasingly post-reality. And post-truth. Where even am I? Only my internal state is real, and when that is upended I feel like I match the world. On fire, and not what I pictured when I was a kid at ALL.

The Longest Way to the End, Repaint and Algorithmic Build and Redux

The Longest Way to the End, Repaint and Algorithmic Build and Redux

WRITING
WRITING

AI, Spiritualism, writing an artist statement in real time, general chaos

AI, Spiritualism, writing an artist statement in real time, general chaos

I am not the only artist that dreads writing an artist statement. How important is process to what I write and submit? Should I mention AI at all? People are hating on it, and with reason. Or do I even want to change what I have? (Hint: not really. But I gotta.) What's the most important thing I can say about my work — and will it resonate with anyone?

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How I Actually Use AI to Create Art — And Why That’s Not Quite What I Said

How I Actually Use AI to Create Art — And Why That’s Not Quite What I Said

I use AI in my painting process — but not to make paintings. A painter and coder on the real role AI plays in a studio practice, and why the distinction matters.

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Interview
Interview

From 2023: This week Wes and Todd sit down with Painter, Ann Morgan. Ann discusses painting big, technology informing her process, xeroxes, learning to paint at age 13, winning awards in her youth, AmeriCorps VISTA, getting her B.F.A. at Michigan State University, not painting for 20 years, always considering herself an Artist, her “Art Stuff” folder, the catalyst to start painting again, melding the traditional with technology, Artificial Intelligence, RunwayML, painting in oil, her process using A.I., painting in the dark, being bendy, A.I. prompts, borrowing imagery, what scares her about A.I., artist statements living in a simulation, and art being unapologetic joy.

From 2023: This week Wes and Todd sit down with Painter, Ann Morgan. Ann discusses painting big, technology informing her process, xeroxes, learning to paint at age 13, winning awards in her youth, AmeriCorps VISTA, getting her B.F.A. at Michigan State University, not painting for 20 years, always considering herself an Artist, her “Art Stuff” folder, the catalyst to start painting again, melding the traditional with technology, Artificial Intelligence, RunwayML, painting in oil, her process using A.I., painting in the dark, being bendy, A.I. prompts, borrowing imagery, what scares her about A.I., artist statements living in a simulation, and art being unapologetic joy.