My work today is mostly landscape: a lot manmade, and the more mundane the better. Valley streets at night, towers, bridges, freeway overpasses, the LA river. I love playing with open, fresh color. This is where the California comes through. I studied with Joe Blaustein at UCLA, as well as Andrew Forge, Richard Lytle, John Hull, and Natalie Charkow at Yale.

After years working in tech, it was time to bring my own work — always going in the background — out into the open. The only antidote for digital saturation that I’ve found is getting back to the natural world around us, simple physical presence, and I believe the only non-fungible is this one human life we get. Chalk it up to my being from the last generation to get that old-timey childhood. Might also account for why I’m drawn to common, everyday objects and scenes, finding glory in even the most modest stuff.

So my goal is simple: to experience and interpret the world in a way that creates the feeling in others, by putting it down in paint. It’s my way to acknowledge how lucky I feel to have this life, however humble. To restore our senses, so we get back to ourselves, and each other.