Statement...
The work I have been making for the last couple of years is primarily about conceptual and pictoral exploration. Following rabbit holes of ideas, visual stimuli, process, pictoral structure, and what it looks like when I trace my time by having said traced time manifested visually or situationally. My work varies with each new smaller project that I am working on but the above umbrella is how I work. My overall artistic project is less about a rigid research of a few well articulated ideas, and much more about “maybes” and “what ifs”. Theology, philosophy, freedom, and the like, have metaphors that lie dormant waiting to be discovered and brought to light, and art making is where I find these most often.
Resume
I eat, sleep, surf, and make art in Seal Beach CA
MFA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA 2007
BA Biola University, La Mirada CA, 2002
Select Solo Shows:
2009 Are You Ready To Testify, Taylor De Cordoba, Los
Angeles CA
2007 The Grand Order of the Salt Dippers, MFA thesis show, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2006 How It Feels To Be Something On, Taylor De Cordoba, Culver City CA
2004 Do You Hear Me?, Ghetto Gloss, Los Angeles CA
2003 Memoirs For My Wake, Ghetto Gloss, Los Angeles CA
Select Group Shows:
2010 The OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna CA
2009 ARTRA at the T-Lofts, Santa Monica CA
Orphan Kitties Go To The Circus, LACE, Los Angeles CA
2008 Cover Version, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles CA
2007 Aqua Art Fair (Taylor De Cordoba), Miami FL
OCMA Benefit Art Auction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Art LA (Taylor De Cordoba), Santa Monica Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
2005 Easy Action, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana CA
Collectors Series, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004 Tree Trimmings, Track 16, Santa Monica CA
Paper Works, Mimi Barr Gallery, San Francisco CA
The DL, Star Shoes, Los Angeles CA and traveled to Tokyo
Select Press:
2009 New American Paintings,
Riviera Magazine, 12/09
Los Angeles Times, "Design Loves Art" by Suzanne Muchnic, 9/23/09
2008 New American Paintings
2008 Los Angeles Times, "Cover Version..." by Lynell George, 7/13/08
2007 Los Angeles Times, "45 Painters Under 45" by Christopher Knight, 12/2/07
2006 ArtForum, 3/06
2005 OC Weekly, "Step to the New", 6/9/05
2003 ArtWeek, review by Craig Stevens of Memoirs For My Wake @ Ghetto Gloss, 6/03
Random Other Resume Worthy Things:
2007/2008 I taught two sections of 4D design (new media) at Biola University, La Mirada CA
Paintings Edge Residency, Idywild CA
I did the album art for singer/songwriter supreme Barrett Johnson's new record, In Case I Went Missing and two covers for the band Summer Darling's e.p.'s
2006 I had paintings in 2 movies, Art School Confidencial, and Havoc
I did art for the interior for the awesome shop Scout in LA
2004 I had a painting sell at Christies in NYC for a benefit sale held by Chrylalis Records
I also had a fake solo show at Ghetto Gloss to film the fake reality show about Roseanne Barr. That was weird.
