He was born November 25, 1973 in North Chicago, Illinois, and spent most of his extended childhood in Michigan, where his extended family still lives. He had lived in Pennsylvania since 1986.

R. W. Norton Art Gallery, "The Hudson River school: American landscape paintings from 1821 to 1907, a loan exhibition, October 14-November 25, 1973, the R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana ...