Multicolor

  • A touch of vanity

    Artwork Description: A Touch of Vanity portrays vanity as a facet of self-perception rather than a performative act. The layered figures represent instances of self-aggrandization and then, vulnerability. The transparency of forms signals that a stable boundary to the self has not yet been defined. Rather than construing vanity as excess, the painting frames it…

  • Caterpillar

    Artwork Description: Caterpillar expresses the psychological state of becoming, a state naturally defined by uncertainty and tension. The segmented forms and looping paths represent a mind that is in flux and divided into parts. The bold, gestural lines switch in meaning between boundaries and impulses. The shifting colors represent transformation. Rather than symbolizing the end-state,…

  • Baroque Rosary

    Artwork Description: I have noticed how Christian art become a kind of mimicry. A copy of a copy where so-called “good” art is imitating whatever acceptable form, as if art which comes afterwards is lesser and not meeting a “traditional” standard. I received that rosary when I was a child and have had it for…

  • Happy Hour

    Artwork Description: This piece is about the everyday reformed in dreams and trying to capture the otherworldliness or strangeness of this world. I took regular objects giving them a sensuous and wonderland sense of proportions, interpreting the martini glasses and lifesavers to bring out a saturated quality—exaggerated lines with colors popping and invading. I gave…

  • Seduction

    Artwork Description: I intend the flower to give the double presence of flesh. The vulnerability of flesh with its veins, its textures, and its exhilaration and intimacy. Flesh is protective but also easily wounded. Seduction and desire fill us and leaves us bare, visible, shivering, and open. This work is unabashedly celebrating sex and femininity…

  • Urge to Transcend

    Artwork Description: Inspired by the religious studies of Mircea Eliade (1907-86), this urge is the human desire to escape the profane world and reach a sacred objective reality. Width: 41 Height: 51 Depth: 2 Artwork year of completion: 2025

  • Reading Peace

    Artwork Description: The notion of reading peace suggests the value has been communicated, shared, and one can grasp its meaning. Width: 51 Height: 41 Depth: 2 Artwork year of completion: 2025

  • Liminal Phase

    Artwork Description: Inspired by the social drama theory of British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner (1920-83), regards religious dimensions in human experience. Width: 41 Height: 51 Depth: 2 Artwork year of completion: 2025