About Justin

Justin’s work is an investigation into the spaces where shared memory, identity, and experience intersect. Growing up in Washington, DC Justin learned early on how our unique spaces shape perspective, and how the layered histories of our city are expressed in the rhythm of its streets and in the stories we experience every day as a community. Justin’s practice draws on this living understanding of an especially beautiful city, using oils, watercolors, and acrylics to explore the beauty of narratives shaped by collective history.

Justin is especially interested in how our nation’s capital is formed through both its physical presence and its emotional ties to the local community and the country as a whole. Each work, whether a portrait of a building or the community in celebration, becomes a record of the vibrant beauty of a specific moment in time, using visual language to highlight the strongest and most meaningful aspects of our shared culture.

Color and light are central to his exploration of presence and moment. Vivid hues, along with edges that are sometimes rough and sometimes blurred, reflect the energy and beauty of urban life in a city that values its civic legacy. Through this tension, he aims to create work that resonates emotionally and invites viewers to consider what it means to belong in a city and a community meant for everyone.

Ultimately Justin uses his art in a way to examine the marks he leaves on the world and the marks the world leaves on us.