Painting artist
Using photos from my family tree and a timeline of the natural history of our planet, I have placed my ancestors in key turning points of evolution. Patching together actual people and actual events in ways that could never have happened, I re-create a map of human progress. I takes liberties in expanding my family to include plants, animals, and volcanos.
These Paintings are magical spells of safety. The tape structures are both everything I can do, and completely inadequate materials to make a structure. In the beginning, I was just trying to produce a representation of a basic net of safety for people that don’t have the solidity/ safety of a home structure. At some point in my process, the well wishing took the form of fortune cookie type messages that appear in some of the paintings. All of them are prayers to the universe to take care of the people, since we are not doing a very good job of it.
22” x 30”
Acrylic, oil & tape on paper
22” x 30”
Acrylic, watercolor & tape on paper
22” x 30”
Acrylic, oil & tape on paper
22” x 30”
Acrylic, screenprint & tape on paper
16” x 20”
Acrylic, screenprint & tape on paper
17” x 30”
Acrylic & tape on paper
16” x 20”
Acrylic & tape on paper
11” x 14”
Acrylic, spray paint &tape on canvas
22” x 22”
Acrylic & tape on wood
18” x 24”
Oil, Acrylic & tape on canvas
mixed media inspired by the morning light on the San Mateo Bridge + William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
These paintings are inspired by Hawaii, and it’s indomitable nature.
Images of sugar cane factories being usurped by plant life.
Volcanoes building new land even at the cost of established areas.
Even the immense Queen Mary seems doomed when embarking on the wild islands.
I find it refreshing, after a lifetime of regarding land as something very old and already formed to see and think about the planet in continual growth.
18” x 18”
Acrylic on wood panel
18” x 18”
Acrylic & oil on wood panel
18” x 18”
Acrylic & oil on wood panel
18” x 18”
Acrylic & oil on wood panel
18” x 18”
Acrylic & oil on wood panel
72” x 60”
Oil on Canvas
These paintings of the Diggins unsettle colonial attitudes that maintain Gold Rush mythologies through the preservation of an extracted landscape and ethnocentric history frozen in time.
22” x 22”
Oil, acrylic & gold leaf on wood panel
Abandoned ruins of a homestead in reflection of the used up land.
22” x 22”
Acrylic, oil & gold leaf on panel
Abandoned ruins of a homestead, in reflection of the used up land.
35” x 22”
Acrylic & oil on wood panel
22” x 22”
Acrylic on wood panel
22” x 22”
Acrylic, oil & gold leaf on panel
The rainbow pit represents the true treasure- which is still present, even after a mine is deemed no longer profitable
29.5” x 40”
Oil & spray paint on wood
For this painting, I used found stencils to create the ravaged landscape of a mining site and hand painted the “man made” structures of the town. Both are abandoned and decaying after being used up.
22”x30”
Oil on Paper
18” x 18”
Acrylic on wood panel
Paintings of my house and my dream houses from pandemic times.
16” x 20”
Spray paint & oil on canvas
11” x 14”
Acrylic on canvas
11” x 14”
Acrylic on canvas
11” x 14”
Acrylic on canvas
11” x 14”
Acrylic on canvas
11” x 14”
Acrylic on canvas
16” x 20”
Spray Paint & oil on wood
16” x 20”
Spray paint & oil on wood
These paintings are a visual re-cap of my internal and external journey, through 2013-2016.
The Body~ is a snarled traffic jam of energy, getting stuck inside the body, prohibiting the spirit and wings from taking flight. This card has an un-balanced duality of wanting to stay in the snarl, and in wanting to transcend and fly away.
Oil on gesso’d paper
The Woods Mermaid~ is a Magical, mythical figure that is in tune with the natural world. Part sea creature, part mountain goat; She transcends a single reality or power. This card represents the inability to reconcile the magical, creative life with the reality of the physical world.
Oil on gesso’d paper
The Bride~ Locked in an institutional tower, with the only escape back in through a dark tunnel of hidden secrets and heartbreak. This Card has a feeling of trapped between a rock and a hard place. Neither direction feels like the glowing promise of love
Oil on gesso’d paper
Alien-Nation~ a youthful, costumed character with an ethereal, logical, text book idea of a father figure looking over her shoulder from a removed distance. This card is full of isolation, of the restrictions of a muscle and bone body.
Oil on gesso’d paper
The Spirit~ Drawing color, light and magic from the universe and funneling it up and out, through the balanced body. This card is a celebration of growth and learning from all that surrounds us.
Oil on gesso’d paper
