Blue Haiti

This piece for Op Ed is for an article about what Haiti is like months after the earthquake this past January. Find the article here.

Come home before dark Opening

The opening of "Come home before Dark" was last Saturday at Active Ride Shop in Valencia, Ca.
Anna Topuriya and I headed out there to see what was going on.
Here are a few pics from that night:

 Graham Walzer

He and Megan Mah put the show together

 Michael Hernandez

In front of his work

 

Anna and I in front of her pieces

 Anna's Pieces

Nick Arciaga

Nick has another show up right now at Giant Robot San Francisco

 My pieces

 This is a better view of the large piece above. 

It's a lithograph.

The only difference is that the one included

in the show has a wash of ink.

I guess I lied in the previous post. 

This is actually the latest piece I've made that includes a cow.
so...in fact, not over the whole cow thing...

Cow

I have been wanting to draw cows and bulls for a while.
I don't know why sometimes I get urges to draw certain things.
Before the cows, it was houses (still sort of is houses.)
I finally got my chance to make a finished piece with a cow in it a few weeks ago.
This piece got the cows and bulls out of my system.

Up coming show: Come Home before Dark

I'm participating in a group show which opens this Saturday, November 13th.
It was curated be Graham Walzer and Megan Mah.
Featuring Derek Albeck, Nick Arciaga , Elizabeth Browne, Gio Castranova,  Euthanasia, Michael Hernandez, Me, Bryan Sheffield, Jared Sherbert, Anna Topuriya, Nathanael Turner, and Graham Walzer.

Come by if you're around, and check out some great work.

J+K Gallery

September 10th was the opening of a group show I am a part of at J+K Gallery in Arcadia. The theme of the show is "Process" and deals with unveiling the process that the artist goes through to get to a finished piece. I submitted finished pieces as well as photographs that show some of my process.

 

Some of the above photos were taken by my friend Ophelia

because, well... I had my camera with me, but like I always do, I forgot to use it. 

The following Images were take with my cell phone while I was making 

this sculpture.

The show runs until November 12th.

Summer scholarship wall

This is my wall showing for scholarship this term.
This is work I've done in the last few months.
A recurrent theme that i have been working on (consciously and subconsciously) is the idea of the human body as landscape.
I feel as if I'm barely scratching the surface on this topic.
I will continue to explore it.

Everybody likes Balloons

This is a piece I made for a group show at Canteen Gallery in Canada.
The theme of the show was 99 Red Balloons.

two homes

Senior Drawing Projects

One of my favorite classes, and one in which I feel I've made work that really means something to me.

flesh, glass, and light

So for a while I was(and still am) fascinated by the kind of images I've been getting by scanning myself. I've been using myself as a model, because it's easier then to try to direct someone else.

At first I was doing them to use them as reference, but I think I got to the point where I feel that the scans speak for themselves. I don't think that they need to be translated into a drawing or painting. Aside from a little color correction and some cropping, I'm enjoying them as they are.