Laguna College of Art + Design

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…

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…

My aim is to make strong, memorable images that invite the viewer to participate in a narrative. The narrative is a means of expressing emotions and meaning and allows freedom in the interpretation of ideas. Passage explores themes of traditional fa…

Passive-Aggressive is a series of six drawings and six paintings that focus on voyeurism and repressed male fantasies. It should also be seen as a kind of visual diary that records two years of struggle, trial and error in a post-graduate painting p…

In the film American Psycho, Patrick Bateman stares blankly at his reflection in the mirror as he states, “There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory—I sim…

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…