Otro Mundo, 2023

Acrylic on panel

18 x 24 x 1.5 in.

I make perceptually-charged geometric abstractions - using semi-transparent colored packing tape from Mexico as a painting medium, as well as working in acrylics, printmaking and murals. My work engages ideas of aliveness, multiplicity and relationality. I am inspired by the shimmering radiance of nature, resting in present-moment awareness meditation, and the pleasures of a body in motion. I aim for compositions that activate the eye and reward sustained viewing with shifting patterns and unfolding dynamic relationships of shape and color. In this way my work is an invitation to slow down and observe your mind seeing, thinking and feeling.

I am a self-taught artist, former New York City public school teacher, arts lawyer in San Francisco, and asylum staff attorney for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. I was a parent-artist residency awardee at Kala Art Institute. My work has been shown at the de Young Museum, Galeria de la Raza, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Root Division, Southern Exposure, Seed Gallery, Your Mood Gallery, Hang Art, Soho20 Gallery, SCOPE Miami Beach, Art Miami, and in four solo shows with Farm Projects. My work is in the collections of Google, CIC and the California Tennis Club.