Recent Works

2024

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One of the watercolors from my show at MSJC, “Paper Stories”, named by John the director. This piece and one other address the “death of a dream” and are incantations for the end to suffering the mother wound.
I mean come on, this shit is gorgeous! 🤩🙃
Guys. INSTALL WENT GREAT. I’m having a love affair with my work. Thanks again to my beloved beloved homie John who I got to spend all day yakkin with today, thanks for the burrito 🌯 😂 and spilling the tea 🫖 I heart you 🫶🏻 @knuthstudio
Shockingly, I told the story of my life in 60 titles. This is the mockup, installation is tomorrow out at MSJC - wish me luck!
This book page painting is from the book 'Thoughts of Sorts' by Georges Perec (2009). It's part of a collection 'Epitaph Epigraph', which is becoming a story. This story has been influenced by so many people from my life, a limited amount of people,
One of hundreds of book pages I'll be displaying in my first solo show since 2008! So very thankful to @knuthstudio and MSJC for the opportunity. Artists' work improves when they have exhibitions. My work is made to be shared; my joy is to allow ot
Tell my studio assistant to get back to work!
Gonna get back to these guys tomorrow. The title of the series is Epitaph Epigraph, based on a quote from Raymond Pettibon I read 20 years ago (I think?). It’s weird how time flies. Some of these books are fifty years old, older than me.
The lovely Katie Shapiro took my photo in my studio. ❤️ Nice to see several of the new works together 🔥 . @katieshapiroportraits
Another book page painting from Epitaph Epigraph, 2010-2025. The Survivor’s Club. A place where the heartbroken can belong. I don’t think the book had these connotations; that’s the interesting thing about taking titles out of conte
Layer 3, free fall
Looks better ✔️
Work in progress. Turned into a piece about fire this year.
Ghosted/erased/buried feral parts of yourself, aching - leaves you wondering what the texture of others’ loneliness is. Denial is a trauma response. Would it have been any different if everything had been different?
From a series spanning decades now, Epigraph Epitaph. This one, 2025. Oil pastel melts my butter lately.

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Los Angeles, CA 90039

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