Laguna College of Art + Design

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…

The subjects of my work are portraits of myself and people that I know, and still lifes composed of objects that have relevance to the individuals in the portraits. My purpose is simple yet challenging: to promote, through careful observation, an ho…

I address the range of human experience and emotion in watercolor paintings. Watercolor, much like emotions, is unpredictable and requires special care to harness its infinitely varied and nuanced complexities. Creating such works requires forgivene…

Mass media is the source of inspiration for my body of work, which I have titled Seen and Forgotten. Contemporary societies that have access to modern media formats are bombarded with photographic images. Newspapers, magazines, video, film and the I…

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 …

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…

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 …