Artist bio

I am a fine art painter and muralist. I was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After I achieved my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas State University, I moved to San Francisco to complete my Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Arts University. I have created public art projects, murals, and installations for fourteen years. In addition, I keep an active studio practice and regularly show in group exhibitions in traditional galleries and untraditional venues. In recent years, I have invested in a home in Austin, Texas, which allowed me to create a live/work studio practice with my partner and be closer to family.

Atlassian, Twitch, Salesforce, CNN, Sentry, Simple Mills, Airbnb, Kore, and Scale are select companies that have commissioned commercial murals and fine art paintings. I have collaborated with Hungry Ghost Productions and Building 180 on dozens of large-scale mural installations. The City of Austin and Oakland have commissioned me for multiple large-scale murals, and I am currently in the design stages for a mural for the City of Garland. Throughout my career, I have honorably assisted notable artists such as Prairie Prince, Daniel Galvez, Sosakete, and Gay Outlaw with public works in Washington, Nevada, and California. I have dedicated a large part of my artistic practice to creating public art installations for wonderful community organizations such as the Chabot Space & Science Center, PangeaSeed, 826 Valencia, Attitudinal Healing Connection, Pomo Indian Cultural Center, Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge, and Paint the Void.

Artist Statement

I am an artist whose fine art and mural practice is grounded in traditional painting techniques with a new surrealist influence, creating inconceivable yet emotionally resonant works. My work explores the enigmatic perspective that one may find clarity by holding space for uncertainty. This series titled "Tides and Time" chooses to linger in the unknown.

Perspective is purposefully distorted to represent navigating uncomfortable moments of growth. The central figures are inserted in a scene absent a true north. The cosmos interspersed with a vast transparent sea represents the unknowable future. Graphic lines, patterns, and bold colors interweave with rolling cloud formations, colossal starscapes, and the reverberating tides of the sea. These high-contrast, simplified, two-dimensional design elements give insight into our interior thoughts, pursuing logic in this ethereal dispersion that denies the parameters of our present three-dimensional reality.

In some works, the figures are simultaneously neither here nor there as they fill their lungs with air and take a considered but deliberate leap into the unknown. In others, their equivocation is evident in the layering of multiple selves that tremble and quake on the precipice of decision. Disorientation often breeds anxiety. There is an intensity to the present moment in flux. However, these paintings have a tone of resilience and hope where the central figures transcend the current moment with enthusiasm and awe. We are unfurling into the luminous light we have sought all along.

Wherever we go and wherever we land- we will be.

A video by the City of Austin about my most recent large-scale public art project at the Gus Garcia Recreation Center.

Super Heroes Mural Project Videos give insight into experiences that shaped my core values as an artist and muralist.