Laguna College of Art + Design

Steven Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in The Grand Design, coined the term “model-dependent realism”, claiming that everything we know about reality is from observations based on models. They believe that different world picture models pr…

Finding beauty in ordinary objects excites me. In each still life, I use ordinary vessels as my subject matter. I paint them in oil in a classical and traditional style. I use ceramic vessels in Oriental and simple design because they helps to creat…

I Remember. I Remember – the scent on my mother carries love and comfort. Even though she is not physically with me, her blessing and love stay with me in my memories. Losing my mother is the trigger for me to paint my memories. I experienced …

The formal elements of my work respond to conflicting visual dualities in water. Water is a substance that can be both transparent and opaque. It allows its mysteries to stay hidden, or to loom eerily beneath its glassy surface. Realism defines thes…

Our ethics, logic, and aesthetics are highly dependent on the environment to which we belong. In one community such as a country, family, ethnicity, or generation, people may hold beliefs that feel like “common sense” to the people who b…

My experiences, memories, dreams, and ideas are externalized and made lyrical through my oil paintings on canvas. I respond to motifs and subjects from art history, and this body of work is especially informed by the Baroque period and artists inclu…

The culmination of this body of works is centered on my experiences. The paintings of this series follow the story of my life at this time in the past and the present. I want to depict places and people that mark a specific time and place in my life…

My current body of work explores notions of mortality, vulnerability, loss, and survival. Over the last decades, these ideas have shaped my emotional landscape and have led to an investigation of the psychological and physiological circumstances tha…

Holding Still and Letting Go captures powerful personal emotions and intimate experiences and transforms them symbolically as universal expressions for the human condition. The themes in this collection are based on two profound periods—during…

My artwork often reflects an inner world that can be described as “Synthetic Realism.” Robert McKee, a former art professor at Yale University, used the label to loosely describe a form of art that although rooted in realism, manipulates…

Through my study of landscape and portraiture I have found that there are many ways of interpreting and composing a representation of the world. This body of work represents earthquakes and disasters with the knowledge that I have gained from my stu…

My recent body of work delves into the peculiar absurdity of my American experience, using iconic county fair imagery to engage with the excesses, hopes, violence, and delusions pervasive in American culture. Humor becomes my tool to navigate and co…

This piece was included in the Society of Illustrators 63rd Exhibition.

Instinct represents an exploration of an inner wilderness by way of an outer one, premised on my beliefs about the continuity of these seemingly disparate landscapes. This body of work is meant to trace the organic growth and evolution of a project …

There is power in rhythmic images. This series of artworks is meant to discover the presence of patterns in a project that could be seen as introspective and exploratory. Sewing patterns, patterned fabrics and papers, charcoals, and soft pastels ble…

Solitude is something that resonates with all of us, whether we like it or not. Philosophers and psychologists have spent ages studying how we respond to it. My thesis paintings capture my own feelings and reflections on solitude. In my art, I often…

The process of creating the work that makes up Bareable was unexpected for me. It was an opening to self-healing that I was unaware that I needed so badly. With each painting that I created during this process, I made a new discovery about myself th…

A personal confession can be a meaningful articulation of how individuals are all related in society, nature and the fundamental aspects of humanity. Those records can give us a deeper appreciation of life and understanding of who we are and where w…