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Clase Obrera
Painting is a joy. It is also work and I work everyday. My ethic is inspired by the rural farming community to which
I was born--a place where the discipline in which one labors is not as important as the discipline with which
one labors. My grandparents both grew and harvested the crops of California’s Central Valley. I am the unexpected artist.
My family encouraged me, nurtured my dream, and helped me to live a life contrary to the expectations of others in my favorite
dusty little town, and elsewhere.
I grew up surrounded by natural color fields. Crop rotations regularly presented different forms and textures,
and each season brought new colors in blocks and rows. These geometric structures and planes that formed the wide-open landscape
of my youth have always captivated me. So too have the people that inhabit this panorama.
I have great reverence for the human form. I respect all of its manifestations--young, old, agitated, at peace. The simplest
gestures often convey a person's natural dignity. These gestures bear the weight of my compositions. Color ties them to emotion. In
my paintings, elements of abstraction and formal structure are incorporated to lend ambiguity to the implied narrative of
each piece. I leave the story to the viewer.
AWARDS
- 2007 George Sugarman Foundation Grant
RESIDENCIES - 2008 Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS - Kaiser Permanente, Corporate Headquarters, Oakland
- County of Alameda, County Court
House, Oakland
- County
of Alameda, Transportation Authority Building, Oakland
- Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco
and Sacramento
- EnviroTrans
Solutions, Corporate Headquarters, Oakland
- Keever Vineyards, Yountville, CA
- Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts, Miramonte, CA
- PUBLICATIONS
The
Business Journal of Hispanic Research. Indiana - Somos Medicina: Mujeres de Maiz anthology of art and poetry.
Los Angeles
- Other
Investigations literary magazine. Boston
- Wines and Vines trade magazine. San Rafael
- Mungo Vs. Ranger biannual journal
of poetry and prose. San Francisco
- Penumbra literary magazine. Turlock
- Kaiser Permanente, Corporate Headquarters,
Oakland
- County
of Alameda, County Court House, Oakland
- County of Alameda, Transportation Authority Building, Oakland
- Public Policy Institute
of California, San Francisco and Sacramento
- EnviroTrans Solutions, Corporate Headquarters, Oakland
- Keever Vineyards,
Yountville, CA
- Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary
Arts, Miramonte, CA
- PUBLICATIONS
The Business Journal of Hispanic Research. Indiana - Somos Medicina: Mujeres de Maiz
anthology of art and poetry. Los Angeles
- Other Investigations literary magazine. Boston
- Wines and Vines trade magazine.
San Rafael
- Mungo
Vs. Ranger biannual journal of poetry and prose. San Francisco
- Penumbra literary magazine. Turlock
EDUCATION MFA
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Certificate of Printmaking California State University Stanislaus BA California State University of
Stanislaus MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro Certificate of Printmaking California
State University Stanislaus BA
California State University of Stanislaus
PRESS
The Hanford Sentinel, March 2008
The East Bay Express, April 2007
Your Bridge to the East Bay, April -
May, 2007
The East Bay Monthly, June
2006
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