Laguna College of Art + Design

Unconditional Love of a Gentle Soul focuses on human connections. I draw inspiration from the relationships that I have with people around me, who are both unique and artistic. By choosing to dig deep and highlighting the most vulnerable everyday mo…

My paintings reflect my recent life experience and my thoughts about old Chinese wisdom such as Taoism and yin-yang. Yin and yang reflect the symbiotic polarity in my paintings—love and loneliness, movement and stillness, solitude and connecti…

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 …

In the basin of a hidden valley, a skewed rock pile breaks the silhouette of distant blue mountains. The already-fallen sun leaves a green sky in its wake. Without the heat of day to hold it back, a brisk chill quickly rises from the sandy ground. T…

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…

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…

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…