Laguna College of Art + Design

I create large figurative oil paintings that revolve around the concept of growth. Growth is a beautiful experience but can also bring about overwhelming uncomfortable feelings. I am interested in capturing this duality and exploring how these inter…

As I return to the muse after a 20-year absence, I am a much older and wiser man in search of answers to age-old questions. I had often looked for those answers in the halcyon days of my youth when I was a Laguna Beach “brother of eternal love…

My paintings are about the ways in which communities of color strive to protect and heal themselves from a matrix of oppression, and how they succeed in ways that foster joy, new cultural practices, and moments of contented solitude and stillness. I…

The scenes in my surrealist paintings are derived from literature, movies, past experiences, and places that I visited, dreamt of, and imagined. I seek to paint interiors and landscapes that will evoke a sense of déjà vu in my audience…

Living in a variety of places over the past 20 years has given me a transient view on home. My oil paintings reflect this perspective; and in this series, I’m asking the viewer to picture home as an abstract concept. It’s a historically …

My thesis is meant to be an exciting adventure in which I attempt to convey to the viewer a human portrait as an enigmatic puzzle, filled with allegorical interpretations of moral, social and cultural issues. Recently I came to the conclusion that t…