About
My art is an attempt to see the agelessness and timelessness of human connectivity. I always seem to find my way back to the figure or portraiture whether painting, etching, using collage, photography or mixed media installation. The work frequently delves into female connectivity, anti-racism and humankind's connectedness to the earth.
Born in New Orleans, I studied painting and photography, moved to Paris, then settled in California and did postgraduate studies at the San Francisco Art Academy. One of my art career's biggest dancing-in-the-streets moment was when both the Louvre in Paris and the Getty Museum liked and retweeted my artwork on their social media pages. Both my home and studio are in Santa Monica, CA.
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Exhibitions
2023 Installation "Dia de Los Muertos", Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA
2023 Brand 51 Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Glendale, CA
2023 "The Venus Series", Slipstream Galleries, 18SAC Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA.
2022 (Re)Imagining Home, Kitchen Lab, 18SAC Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2022 "Collective Acts of Peace", Slipstream Galleries, 18SAC Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA.
2021 "Recovery Justice", 18th St Arts Center - Airport Campus.
2020 "Building Networks of Empathy", 18th St Arts Center - Airport Campus.
2020 "Facing Darkness", 18th St Arts Center - an online exhibition
2020 "Drawing Connections" Exhibition, 18th St Arts Center Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Z Art Academy Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 18th Street Airport Campus's WestEdge Open Studio, Santa Monica, CA.
2019 "Transformations" Exhibition, 18th Street Arts Center Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA.
2019 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 Only Hearts, Santa Monica, CA.
2019 Montana Avenue Art Walk, Santa Monica, CA.
2018 Only Hearts, Santa Monica, CA.
2018 Montana Avenue Art Walk, Santa Monica, CA.
2017 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Montana Avenue Holiday Walk, Santa Monica, CA.
2016 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Espresso Cielo’s, Santa Monica, CA.
2014 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2013 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Café Montana, Santa Monica, CA.
2012 WPW Juried Show, Laguna Beach College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA
2012 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2012 17th Street Café, Santa Monica, CA.
2011 "Brand Annual National Exhibition of Works on Paper", Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA.
2011 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2009 Student / Faculty Exhibition, Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Press & Social
2020 The Louvre Museum, Paris, Liked and retweeted my artwork on Twitter.
2020 The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Liked and retweeted my artwork on Twitter.
Representation
Saatchi Art
https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/297471
Artist Residency
2019-2023 18th St Arts Center Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles at Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA.
Workshops & Teaching
Weekly Lockdown Art Challenge, 2020 to 2021
Brentwood Art Center Figurative Workshops, Los Angeles, CA.
CIACLA Figurative Workshops, Los Angeles, CA.
The Getty Center: Z Academy's Drawing with the Masters, Los Angeles, CA.
Awards
Brand 40 National Works on Paper, Brand Library, Pasadena, CA;. 2011, 2023
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