Laguna College of Art + Design

As syntheses of my background in fine art, fashion and religion, The Cult of Beauty is a series of realistic figurative oil paintings portraying a social-philosophical narrative. Based on the concept that the human spirit longs for love and approval…

Silicone dolls can serve different purposes in people's lives. They can take on different identities, as a daughter, a sister, a best friend, or as most people expect, a lover. Silicone dolls, although not alive, have emerged as a source of solace f…

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 …