ARTWORKS
“The Hollywood-fueled iconographic imagery of Los Angeles is inescapably linked to feelings of freedom and dreams. The freeways, the Pacific ocean and the beaches, the palm trees, the Hollywood sign, the deserts, the boulevards, the mansions, the mountains, the swimming pools, the cars and the glamorous people: these are the pallet of my art.”
I am also available for custom commissions. Many of these works can be scaled, personalized and made specifically for your home, office or location. Write me to learn more.
AUTOPIA
Paintings over ink-jet prints of aerial views of Los Angeles freeway interchanges
Long Beach 710 x Century 105-1.2. 32.5”w x 27.6” h. $3,000.
MYTHICAL PAINTED LANDSCAPES Photographed from above and over-painted with acrylic in vibrant colors, this series transforms aerial freeway interchanges from a conflicted reality into graphical and poetic artworks, with mythical historic landscapes that recall our agricultural past. The idealized landscape, painterly brushwork, flattened and shifting horizon lines, and seductive colors recall Wayne Thiebaud’s Sacramento River Delta series and Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park works. Learn more about this series.
I CALL IN THE OCEAN VOICES
Lenticular Prints Combining Text and Moving Images of Ocean Waves
Imagine Believing. Acrylic over a lenticular print. 41”w x 29”h.
EVOCATIVE PHRASES Oceans are wondrous and always changing. Its shorelines are never still or quiet. I wanted to to create artworks that evoke its movement and its voices. In this series, I have used a unique kind of photographic print called lenticular that can display multiple images when you move beside it. Five frames from a video of ocean waves are combined to give a sense of the movement of waves, into which evocative words are added. Artworks remaining: Imagine Believing. Imagine It’s Coming. Imagine Resisting. Imagine the Irresistible. Imagine Tranquility. Bet Everything. Prescient Fearless Beauty Unbounded Passionate Irrepressible. Learn more about this series.
5 Oceans 5 Senses
Inkjet prints on acrylic, backlit with motion-controlled lights
5Oceans - 5 Senses. Acrylic frame with photographs and LEDs. 22w x 32.5h x 4”d Edition of 3 plus 1 AP.
SEAS OF BEAUTY The movements, colors, smells, sounds, and tastes of the earth's oceans are infinitely captivating. I have paired photographs of waves from each of the world's five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic) with evocative phrases of the five human senses and back lit them with motion-controlled LEDs. Learn More here.
SEARCH QUERIES: Portrait of America
LED screen scrolling with over a million keyword searches
Search Queries: Portrait of America in 2006. LED screen, books, wood. 64 5/8”w x 20”h x 7 3/4”d. Edition of 3.
AMERICA’S PRIVATE SEARCHES There is no activity that reveals more about a culture and its topical interests than its internet searches. Search queries reveal a staggering detail about a society’s intimate interests, phobias, medical conditions, cultural obsessions, shopping intentions, sexual predilections, religious, literary and media preferences. Over a million searches taken from private AOL searches from 2006 scroll along the LED screen. Learn more here.
PACIFIC SHIMMERS
Painted Dye Sublimation Prints on Aluminum of Ocean Reflections
Fourteen Masts #1. Dye transfer prints on aluminum. Fifteen works remaining. From $600-1,200
ABSTRACTIONS OF WATER REFLECTIONS These original artworks are both colorful abstractions and evocative waterscapes. I am lucky enough to have spent hundreds of days, paddling, surfing, swimming, sailing or mostly just admiring the ever changing light and waves of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Its patterns of waves and reflections inspired this series of painted, dye sublimation prints on aluminum. Learn more about this series.
WATER’S EDGE
Paintings of Sunbathers in Swimming Pools
Water's Edge #9 56” w x 39.5” h. Resin, acrylic over ink-jet print. Seven works remain. $2,000
POOLS OF COLORS These aerial views of a large swimming pool with sunbathers, floaters, and reflective water are archetypical California images. Their bright colors and painterly pool waters evoke the carefree lifestyle, tanned bodies, suburban dreams, and warm weather. Learn more about this series.
TOTEM BATHERS
Painted Sculptures of Bathers & Surfers
Acrylic over carved poplar. 85” h. 3 works remaining. $2,000
COLORFUL BATHING BEAUTIES Three colorful, expressionistic females in swimsuits are stacked up like a totem pole of the Native peoples for the Pacific Northwest. Their meanings mirror those of these sculptures, presenting a range of complex and symbolic mythologies. My years spent on Southern California beaches inspired me to create these free-standing sculptures of sunbathers, made from acrylic paint on carved poplar wood. Learn more about this series.
MASH UPS
Famous Historical Artworks Reimagined with California Imagery
Birth of Venus, Take 2. Limited edition fine art prints in various sizes starting at $125
CALIFORNIA REMIXES Using a combination of painting, drawing, photography and digital copies of historical art works, I have done a series of prints of remixes of famous artworks from history, updated with contemporary California iconic landscapes and people. Like the creativity that music business has shown remixing old standards with new beats, I wanting to create new visual works, mashing up old and new. Learn more about this series.
FADE TO MEMORY
A mixed media homage to the 35mm Film Days
Fade to Memory, 48”w x 60”h x 6”d. Framed walnut box, 35mm film hand painted in two separate loops, sprockets, rollers, film reels.
HOLLYWOODLAND
Kinetic Homage to the Past and Future L.A. Icon
Hollywoodland. Mixed Media 80” W x 30” H x 6” D Edition of 3, plus one AP.
ICONIC HOLLYWOOD SIGN This bas-relief mixed media art work shows a mythical Hollywood hills landscape that is an homage to the famous Hollywood sign, L.A.’s green tech heritage, the politics of exclusion and diversity, and the entertainment capital. Learn More here.
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
A Selection of Limited Edition Prints
Learn more about the Landscape photos, the Imagine Series, the Dreamers.