New Project: MONO WEIGHT

Moving from screens to canvasses, I’ve been working away on a series of designs I’m calling MONO WEIGHT — layered, loose color forming a seemingly precise shape in uniform weight. It’s nice being able to throw some paint around, outside of the world of pixels. And what I’m most excited about, I feel like I’ve got a process to carry this idea forward. I’m planning to make a bunch more and see how everything lands in a big collection. Balance, dimension, and direction without the need for a message.

Recently shown at Tugboat Gallery.

Home Edition Exhibition

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
September 6 – November 12, 2022

Chaffey College and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art proudly present Home Edition. When the pandemic hit the U.S. in 2020 and we began to isolate, we had to rethink the ways in which we would connect to students, faculty, artists and community members. Like other cultural institutions and organizations, we worked to provide materials for our audiences that were virtually accessible. In addition, we wanted the content we developed to be thoughtful, relevant, and we wanted it to advance the collective missions of the college and museum. The result was a virtual series of curated conversations and lectures with artists, workshops and tutorials, and other collaborative programs that we called Home Edition.

PANVAX

Art to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination and/or Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy

We can simply allow the pandemic to keep pushing aside our lives or we can push back forcefully and with great purpose. While the headlines have been dominated by the death and destruction caused by COVID-19 for most of the last two years, there is a way to keep it from taking over our lives in wave after wave for the foreseeable future: GET VACCINATED.

The vaccine is truly a marvel of modern medicine. It has brought hope amidst despair. It is offense rather than defense. It is light at the end of the tunnel if only we walk toward it. There is no point to willfully let the pandemic rage on in full force. It is in our power to put an end to it.

It is time to seize that power for the good of all.

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Poster: We All Need Room to be Human

For this year’s annual Good Apple Awards, the poster I designed is focused on prison reform. The design takes on the issue of overcrowding and the efficiency of treating people like they aren’t human.

Starting in 1619, slave ships crammed people into perfect configurations. Now it’s being done with cell blocks. A pattern of people with their hands up, outstretched, ready for inspection upon entry into prison. Is anyone able to let their guard down ever again?

For this issue, our list of demands:

  • reduce severe overcrowding

  • stop warehousing people

  • fewer people in prison

  • intentionally help people exit incarceration

Good Apple Awards
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Livestock Exchange Building Ballroom
Omaha, NE

I find perfect geometric patterns quite beautiful. And the maximized use of space comforting. But in this case, both the pattern and use of space represents a cold, calculated brutality.

It might seem logical to just say we should build more prisons. That misses the point entirely. Inspired by the Central Park 5, the New York Times 1619 Project, and Ramsay Bolton.

We Rise: LA

An immersive experience that brings together LA’s diverse community to explore our collective power to live lives of purpose and engagement.

More powerful art for the cause. Put on by Yosi Sergant’s Task Force, this Los Angeles show is 10 days of powerful programming, performances, immersive workshops, and a world-class art exhibition. This effort to call attention to our crisis in mental health is yet another example of artists, strategists, organizers, dreamers, and makers coming together to build momentum towards lasting change.

I contributed a Power Poster to the exhibition called “You Are Not Alone.” A simple reminder that we do not go through this life by ourselves. We are loved and we matter. All of us.

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We Rise: LA
May 18–27, 2019
Los Angeles, CA