Foundation Section G

I have taught Life Drawing, Life/Figure Painting, Beginning and Intermediate Drawing as well as Printmaking Processes such as monoprint, collagraph, screen printing, intaglio and lithography. This course offers me the opportunity to teach combine mediums and techniques to create interesting pictures with unexpected outcomes. I try to incorporate this experimental development in the figure gestures and drawings in my Form and Figure classes by incorporating both monoprint and other matrix driven and collage techniques. In the second semester, with a focus on personal expression, students learn to combine direct observational short and sustained figure drawings with collage and a variety of mediums. Using their sketchbook studies as inspiration, students use quick sketch figure and costume studies to develop formal, aesthetic and expressive drawings.

I am a figurative artist. I have studied with some of the most important figurative artists of the 20th century, both at Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and I am the recipient of several awards, artist in residencies, and fellowships. As an artist, I work with satirical themes within a historical precedent, filtered through contemporary actors and staged in theater-like settings that suggest Southern California locations. A narrative that presents itself for re-interpretation is my creative driving force. As an educator of artists and designers, my ultimate goal is to be able to equip my students with the tools and the freedom to be able to design, build, move, emotionalize and characterize anything they see or imagine. Therefore I find it necessary to teach students the fundamental skills of how to build the human figure from observation as it translates to the language of drawing. This process involves the deconstruction of the human figure into its individual parts and then the synthesis of those parts based on various design principles. The human figure is the most complicated machine ever designed. If you learn to draw the human figure you can build anything.