Laguna College of Art + Design

Making Mischief is a series of mixed media paintings about deviating from the norm. The creative shift that I went through in making this body of work mirrors my journey as a queer person, rejecting both the confines of traditional realism as well a…

Meta-Figures is a series of paintings using the human figurative form as a means of expressing the subconscious. These singular figures and faces are created from my imagination using an intuitive process where one mark leads to another. The fo…

After the sudden loss of my father in 2021, I was driven to paint flowers in his memory, unable to bring flowers to his physical resting spot. I paint daisies in honor of the memories of our family dog Daisy, sunflowers as a symbol of the help and s…

I look for transient moments where light takes shape, creates lines, or illuminates color as it reflects off a surface. When I paint people under these conditions, I find that abstract qualities of visual perception are a compelling vehicle for empa…

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…