Works on Paper

I am an Illustrator and Fine Artist based in New Jersey. I enjoy creating my illustrations with bright colors and creative shapes using an array of both digital and traditional painting techniques.

Images of people against the landscape, gathering together, moving apart, from place to place, against the land and sky, create familiar visual patterns of human drama- visual echoes beyond a specific narrative.

Paper is a historical technology that is able to record creativity. Be it a metaphor for cultural heritage as a relation between nature and artifice or as a physical stand-in for conscious thought, paper’s double focus has always appealed to me.

My current body of work explores issues associated with the societies and politics of contemporary Mexican and Mexican American Cultures. I am inspired by my personal experiences growing up as a Mexican immigrant in California and the Midwest.

My imagery draws from life experiences to explore a world of familial intimacy, its impact on adolescent sexuality, and the resulting complicated yearning for personal joy as an adult.

The work in this series refers to how we assign meaning to our chance experiences through rituals and signs. Using a random assortment of objects as meaning-making devices, I’m giving space for viewers to connect the dots for themselves in an interpretive and reflexive manner.

Old Soul #2 came from a wood pile of large tree sections downed by disease or stormy weather. The cut section exposed the scars and lines of a long life.