The theme of my painting is relationship ,love,human interaction,and self discovered.my technique involves several phases,first drawing shapes that takes forms of humans,folowed by water- color - a process requiring patience,and third acrylic dot work ,which calls for a lots of focus .Working in this process fells to me like embarquing on a adventure with a thousand possibilities,just like life itself.

It is only a matter of time.  San Francisco will be hit by “the next big one” and a major earthquake will return our city to dust.

I was living in New England where natural disasters melt in the morning when I heard about Hurricane Katrina. I could not understand.  New Orleans is in a precarious position. It is likely that it will be hit again. Why rebuild?
Then I moved to San Francisco, equally precariously perched on the San Andreas fault. I fell in love with the city.  And now I get it. When the next earthquake comes I’ll be here rebuilding. When the next big earthquake takes our buildings down I will be here to rebuild.  Here’s the plan:

Anyone can go onto underscoreg.com/quake and submit a location-based memory.  What places in San Francisco are important to you? Where do you walk your dog? Where did you get proposed to? Where do you get the best avocados? Put these memories on the map. I’m pulling together a group of artists working in all mediums who will make original commissions from these memories.  I am compiling these works in neighborhood based shows, online, and in a book.  This book will be our guide. The morning after the next big earthquake we will get up, dust off this book and look to it as our guide for rebuilding the city.  We will rebuild San Francisco from art.

In accordance with this project my work is almost entirely inspired by San Francisco and the stories I hear here.  I work primarily in paint. I have found it an effective language for translating stories into art.  I do not restrict myself to a style or school as different memories and places hold different demands. By allowing anyone to submit a location-based memory I have opened up the commission process to a new audience allowing those who can not purchase art a deeply personal art experience.   I am always looking for other artists who want to adopt the mission of artistically capturing San Francisco. If you want to get involved as an artist or submit a location-based memory check out underscoreg.com/quake

We will rebuild San Francisco from art.

I work realistically, in fact I work from life. I've always painted and drawn from single point of view. I started to make drawings from muliple points of view. Now I'm painting the Estate Sales using multple points of view.

My current work is a series of labor intensive, realistic oil portraits of the detached heads of women.

The cognitive mechanism of the “uncanny valley” occurs when the human likeness produces disquiet and disturbance rather than empathy because it triggers the salience of morality, defies human norms, throws mate selection, and challenges the religious definition of identity or “soul.” The more familiar the likeness is, the more sublimely eerie it becomes.

 The uncanny valley is associated with a more general psychological occurrence in which perception is distorted by categorization. Painting and its relationship to “beauty” is fraught with a history of categorization. I find the subject of “feminine appearance” and assumed aesthetics to be culturally unreal (braindead), and therefore an inviting subject for realism and investigation. 

These are paintings of those I know and care about, and working slowly and deliberately on their portraits offers a meditative space to examine the human head. 

I also teach wet-into-wet oil painting technique. My works smaller works on paper and linen are done onsight from live models, they show the energy of working from life, among other painters. In these works, am interested in creating a psychological and emotional space in an abbreviated image. I work on scrap material and leave the edges unfinished to emphasize immediacy. The backbone of my painting practice is combining technique with contemporary thought. 

I am a San Francisco based artist.  My work is a reflection of the dynamics between the external environment and my internal world.  I find inspiration in the elements of nature and the patterns that reverberate through all forms of life.

Photographs capture a moment in time that allows for reflection and understanding of the world around me. The most satisfying comment I hear about my images is that they transport the viewer to some other place, real or imagined.