I recently graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with my BFA. I am eager to learn as much as I can through my art, the world around me, and the people that I meet. My passion for visual arts stems from my creative mind and interpersonal skills. I am highly motivated and constantly striving to do my best at everything I am working towards. I believe art is meant to challenge beliefs, change perspectives, and teach others, so I aim to capture the duality of the human experience through visual representation.

Over the years, my art has changed and grown but a lot of my work has had the purpose of exploring relationships and experiences that have shaped me and my understanding of the world around me. By diving deep into topics that I am connected to, I have been able to represent them in an appropriate way and I am also able to reflect on my own self in the making of these pieces. I hope that when people view my work, they are able to see something from a new perspective or personally reflect on themselves. I use oil paint acrylic paint, oil pastel, fabric, ink, and graphite. By using many mediums, I can make a painting more dynamic and the material can add to the meaning.

The statement on my current investigation can be read below, lots of exciting new pieces coming from this!

My work consists of large-scale acrylic paintings of vibrant colors, gradients, and frenzied patterns. These elements work both together and against each other, creating a rhythm of balance punctured by chaos. My paintings reference digital spaces, their perfection and quickness, but these references are subverted on closer inspection of my surfaces. All elements are meticulously hand painted and contain slight imperfections due to human fallibility. Shapes and lines begin to wobble, fall out of alignment and shiver against each other. The nature of the hand-made object asserts itself through these imperfections, pushing against assumptions of mechanical construction. I’m interested in restricted spaces, rules, organization and contained order. I plan compositions that are nearly impossible for me to make. These paintings begin to become a repetition of well executed passages and moments of failing. These flaws begin to take on a life of their own, becoming unplanned improvised mutations of patterns and meticulously constructed spaces.

Enjoy!