Laguna College of Art + Design

Unconditional Love of a Gentle Soul focuses on human connections. I draw inspiration from the relationships that I have with people around me, who are both unique and artistic. By choosing to dig deep and highlighting the most vulnerable everyday mo…

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…

Another cold brisk night in the city. Time to wander around, get lost, and find something else to paint. What am I looking for again? Tim suggested keeping my thesis idea in mind—the city is modern life with all the technology, supplies, servi…

This series of oil paintings is an analysis, a summary, a diary, and a confession. For me, creating art is a process of self-knowledge and excavation. Through art, I refocus on feelings and emotions to create a connection to the world around me. Tim…

What makes a place more than the sum of its physical parts? How can I imbue a painting of that place with the emotions, memories and associations that make it deeply significant in my life? These questions form the foundation of my mixed media lands…

Time seems to slow down when I am at my barn with my senior horse or in the studio painting. It is in these moments that I can recognize the nuances present in both situations and appreciate my engagement with them. When at the barn one of the thing…

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…

Am I the only one in the throes of imposter syndrome in a room brimming with faith and heavenly adoration? I went to mega churches with my family when I was younger and witnessed the live performative baptisms, aerial Christmas eve dancers’ ex…

In these paintings I am attempting to capture the presence of awareness in the subject as well as the subtle nuances of their internal states as they express through their outer forms. I want to express a feeling of openness both in the gestural exp…

All living things communicate, but humans have the most complex systems for doing so with approximately 3000–6000 spoken languages. Our need for language is constant. Without it, we cease to be part of a community, a culture, a group. Our cohe…

I undertake the process of individuation with art making. I paint contemplative images that tell stories of personal discoveries and of the transformation of the self by examining psychological relationships between characters in my work, their envi…

My narrative paintings explore a fantasy realm that I call the flooded world, loosely inspired by my home on the expansive floodplains of East Texas. Using the imagery of high water to capture a moment of disrupted reality, my paintings respond to a…

Discord in the Garden is a body of work that represents my exploration into the permeability of gender by way of transvestism or cross-dressing. The subject of this work was initially inspired by a friend of mine who had the courage to reveal to me …

My current body of work, entitled Kinesis, is a series of large scale figurative paintings in which I bridge science and the visual arts as I examine the perception of movement of both subject and viewer. Through the use of overlapping and varied de…