Acrylic and collage on lasercut plexiglass, 6’x4’x4’, 2025
In this mobile, country shapes were taken randomly from an autographic map of the world and made into physical objects. Gallery visitors were invited to collaboratively paint and decorate them and they were added to the mobile, sometimes as seen on the map but also sometimes upside down or sideways. Once freed from their confines they recall animals, birds, fancy dresses, faces…it becomes a guessing game as they spin and move with the breeze.
Wood, aluminum, steel, acrylic and collage on fabric, 6.5'x15'x7," 2025
The woven wall carried on the back of this snake is inspired by three bodies of water, each hiding a border in their depths: the Pacific Ocean, the Rio Grande, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Wood, aluminum, steel, acrylic and collage on fabric, 6.5'x15'x7," 2025
The colors of California as they shift from spring to summer at the U.S./Mexico border are reflected in the woven landscape balanced on the back of this giant snake.
Aluminum, 3D-printed connectors, acrylic and collage on polytab, 11'x11'x6,' 2025
This in-progress piece is the artist’s analog conception of the digital cloud. It is based on the shape of a “walking cloud” seen in New Mexico that touched the ground at one point and then spread upward into the sky.
This cloud blends the digitally created sculpture with segments representing stormy skies, code taken from the artist’s Google storage, and shredded office waste—some embellished with people’s handwritten musings.
This piece was begun as part of a residency with participation from gallery visitors and will continue to develop at future venues.
Pigment prints on rice paper, acrylic, wire. 7’x24,’ 2025
Site-specific installation of the artist’s “peaceful warriors”—paper airplanes imprinted with the Geneva Conventions and International Declaration of Human Rights. These paper planes that have travelled the world resurfaced again in their native Los Angeles for this most recent exhibition.
Sizes & media variable, 2025-6
I think of these works as landscapes. They include collages of torn and rearranged maps, rephotographed treaties that have shaped the borders of the United States, and things around my studio that I visually repurpose though photography. They arise from my observations of what is happening in the world around me.
From top:
The Shape of My Country, 72’x88”
Acrylic and collage on muslin
Segments from various treaties determining the borders of the United States float across a golden field. Photography by Simon Cardoza
Two Worlds, 48’x72’
Acrylic and collage on paper
Maps of the Earth are pieced together to picture a new planet.
My World, 48’x72’
Acrylic and collage on paper
Torn pieces of world maps are randomly reassembled into new continents of the artist’s making.
Archival pigment prints, 11”x14” each
From top left to right:
Red Landscape
Blue Marble Grounded
After
Great Ball of Fire
Wave
Complicated Cloud,
What We Can’t See in the Light
