Laguna College of Art + Design

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 …

My thesis is meant to be an exciting adventure in which I attempt to convey to the viewer a human portrait as an enigmatic puzzle, filled with allegorical interpretations of moral, social and cultural issues. Recently I came to the conclusion that t…

This work was included in the Society of Illustrators 63rd Exhibition.

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 …

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…

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