Laguna College of Art + Design

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 …

Is plastic surgery feminist? Why can I not see myself as a whole whenever I look into the mirror? Advertisements and social media instruct young women to meticulously analyze and obsess over their bodies. Why do I and others worship and partake in 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 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…

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…

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…

A Bridge between Worlds is a series of narrative paintings that explore symbolism and allegory. They are executed in a traditional, representational style, synthesizing the classical, naturalist, symbolist, and contemporary genres of painting. The a…