Foundation Section D

I am an interdisciplinary, research-based artist whose work focuses on issues of social inequity. I appropriate and reconfigure historical images, often of colonialsm and conquest, fabricating alternative iterations that become photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, collages, video and installations. However, all of my projects begin with drawing. It is the foundation of my practice. In my classes, we will investigate composition and visual representation together. I encourage my classes to be active collaborations in which we are all in conversation, experimenting and learning from each other.

I am an artist who works in sculpture, video, and socially engaged practices, to explore the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic, and illusionary. I am also the founder of This Is Not A Gun, a multidisciplinary project aiming to create awareness and activism through collective creative action. My work has been presented in one-person, group exhibitions, and participatory events in venues around the world such as the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, MOCA Geffen Warehouse, Creative Time, and The Anchorage Museum. I teach in Fine Art and the Foundation department and have worked in the disability arts community since 2011 at studios in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA.

The art of teaching Life Drawing reflects my studio practice that centers on the challenge of painting image-records born of my life long fascination with the people and places of the American West.

Landscape and the patterns of weather that cloak it is temporal and ever in flux.

My art like my teaching, seeks to study and record that unfolding visual journey with the universal language of abstraction.

I love the collaborative improvisation of the Life Drawing studio which pivots on the creative energy between the artist and the model.