Born into a creative household in the suburbs of Los Angeles, I began oil painting at the age of five. Engaged in multiple aspects of the arts, image making proved to be the most fluid and universal form of communication. Infatuated with light and color, I have committed my life's work to painting.
I am a representational oil painter concerned with a dialogue between civilization and nature. I create loose narratives derived from visual journalism. Photography, plein-air painting, journal entries, and memory are my tools to recall a location. My work is geographic in its exploration, and focuses mainly on decomposing California landscapes. I am drawn to places with subjects that depict a fragile circumstance. These environments are scarred with the evidence of their histories. Through painting, I embrace the aesthetics of decay and the immense power of destruction and rebirth.
2011 Siena Art Institute, Drawing Connections
2011 Representation by Room Interior Art Gallery, Marin
2011 CCA Baccalaureate Exhibition, San Francisco
2011 States of Perception, Oakland, Ca
2011 States of Perception, Capetown, South Africa
2010 CCA Illustration Thesis Review, San Francisco
2010 Decomposition, BFA Solo Exhibition, San Francisco
2010 What's Their Face?, Juried Show, Remedy, Oakland
2009 Passage, Group Show, Isabelle Percy West, Oakland
2008 Tricks and Gypsies, North/South Gallery, Oakland
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