Laguna College of Art + Design

My work expresses my studies of the human form as well as my experiences with acting. As an actor, I looked closely at human behavior, giving me insights into our shared human experience and giving me the tools to express my own experiences through …

In the Light is a painted observation of our disconnection with the natural environment and how my own reconnection with nature has helped me sort out life’s most difficult questions and challenges. In developing a visual language to express t…

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…

My thesis work Everything is Hours is a seven-by-seven-foot oil panting on canvas that explores our shared yet unconscious connections to this world and its elements. In this square made up of three canvases, I depict how cycles of time, the seasons…

Half an Optimist, Half a Pessimist explores the idea of life as a resource of both positive and negative moods. As an artist, I use oil painting to tell stories about how I face life. In half of my paintings, I was an optimist. I created an ideal wo…

My thesis series is an exploration based off of personal and observed experiences. It is an investigation into the relationship that modern man has with both the artificial world he has created for himself and the surrounding natural world. I depict…

This piece was included in Society of Illustrators West 63rd Exhibition

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…

My thesis, Dying for a Change, explores the story telling of my own hero’s journey that is yet to be fully completed. Through simile, I draw comparison between my work and my journey through life up to this point by reliving darker times and d…

Love and Loneliness explores some of my early memories of my childhood lived in the backyard of my mother’s house. Going back in time, my artwork connects to my roots representing the time when I started shaping the personality and character o…

My wife and children are my greatest source of inspiration in my multi-figurative paintings and sculptures. Making art of my family and myself feels like the most honest way to create art from my experience as a human. I’m pulling from a deep …

I am currently making paintings of the guys I know and love and like to look at, using bits and pieces of the commercial imagery we're all constantly bombarded with via TV, movies, magazines, the Internet, billboards, and even iPhone apps. There is …

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 …

For me, the word “artist” is interchangeable with the word “seeker.” I see myself as having been on this path for a lifetime, and what keeps me moving forward—adding skills, learning theory, studying history, observing …

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…

My large scale drawings use depictions of the human figure to address the influence of society and electronic media on personal versus public identity. The messages that the media communicates have affected my opinion of myself, as well as my though…