Laguna College of Art + Design

For me, the act of painting is an act of being in the moment. I use it as a tool to stay in touch with the world around me and with my personal history. My thesis project, A Series of Literal Paintings, is a collection of observations that I have co…

I address the range of human experience and emotion in watercolor paintings. Watercolor, much like emotions, is unpredictable and requires special care to harness its infinitely varied and nuanced complexities. Creating such works requires forgivene…

Age of Innocence celebrates a special time of life. In my oil paintings, I explore the quiet moments in childhood. As a child, I remember the freedom I felt—the freedom to play and dream. Children have an incredible ability to forgive complete…

A Bridge between Worlds is a series of narrative paintings that explore symbolism and allegory. They are executed in a traditional, representational style, synthesizing the classical, naturalist, symbolist, and contemporary genres of painting. The a…

Jonathon Shay, in Achilles in Vietnam, wrote that he is “deeply opposed to war, but just as deeply respectful of the soldier” (Shay1994, 206). This sentiment reflects my exact feelings and motivations for the seven paintings in my thesis…

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

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…