I grew up in a border town in a family that, like our community, was shaped by cultural and socio-economic polarities that were reinforced at some scales and broke down at others. I belonged in spaces where I stood out and felt like a stranger in spaces where I blended in. Neither space was fully mine, yet both were. I learned early that how a system places you and how you actually exist within it are not always the same. That paradox became a way of seeing. Making is how I think, and abstraction is the language that gets me closest to what I am trying to think through.
I use abstraction as stand-ins for how forms operate in lived experience: multiple logics interacting at once, producing outcomes no single framework fully intends. The choices we make are real, and so are the structures already in place before we make them. I begin with frameworks such as grids, ratios, and rule sets; each coherent on its own terms, yet indifferent to the others. Overlapping, they interact by proximity rather than design. I do not erase; I cover, revise, and reintroduce. Each stage rewrites the conditions of the next. Within each series of paintings, the same initial logic diverges as local decisions ripple outward.
In my work, what imposes order becomes a source of disorder. The geometric generates imbalance; the intuitive restores it. Up close, the surface reads as chaotic; at a distance, unified.
These are not contradictions to be solved; they are the same condition. Where you stand determines which one you experience. The work holds them there; not as answers, but as a place to keep looking. What remains is not a resolution, but a moment held mid-thought.
Education
2027 MFA Fine Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (forthcoming)
2015 Graduated Valedictorian, BFA Painting and Drawing, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Professional Experience
2016-2020 Instructor, Abstract Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2016 The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition, First Place – Abstract/Experimental Category
2015 The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition, First Place – Abstract/Experimental Category
Solo Exhibitions
2017 The Bad Side of Good, Atelier Gallery,79 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2019 Holiday Gift Show, Known Space, 649 Irving St, San Francisco, CA
2019 Dialogues, Modern Eden Gallery, 801 Greenwich St, San Francisco, CA
2019 Mixdown, The Space Gallery, 2319 Santa Clara Ave, Ste B, Alameda, CA
2019 White Cube Challenge, The Space Gallery, 2319 Santa Clara Ave, Ste B, Alameda, CA
2019 Dialogues, Modern Eden Gallery, 801 Greenwich St, San Francisco, CA
2018 Marrow Gallery, 548 Irving St, San Francisco, CA
2017 Yes on Prop F, Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA
2016 Spin Group Show, 690 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA
2015 Mish-Mash Show, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Publications
2025 ShoutoutLA.com. February Publication
2016 The Artist’s Magazine, January/February Issue
2017 The Artist’s Magazine, January/February Issue
2017 The Artist’s Magazine, November Issue
I use abstraction as stand-ins for how forms operate in lived experience: multiple logics interacting at once, producing outcomes no single framework fully intends. The choices we make are real, and so are the structures already in place before we make them. I begin with frameworks such as grids, ratios, and rule sets; each coherent on its own terms, yet indifferent to the others. Overlapping, they interact by proximity rather than design. I do not erase; I cover, revise, and reintroduce. Each stage rewrites the conditions of the next. Within each series of paintings, the same initial logic diverges as local decisions ripple outward.
In my work, what imposes order becomes a source of disorder. The geometric generates imbalance; the intuitive restores it. Up close, the surface reads as chaotic; at a distance, unified.
These are not contradictions to be solved; they are the same condition. Where you stand determines which one you experience. The work holds them there; not as answers, but as a place to keep looking. What remains is not a resolution, but a moment held mid-thought.
Education
2027 MFA Fine Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (forthcoming)
2015 Graduated Valedictorian, BFA Painting and Drawing, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Professional Experience
2016-2020 Instructor, Abstract Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2016 The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition, First Place – Abstract/Experimental Category
2015 The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition, First Place – Abstract/Experimental Category
Solo Exhibitions
2017 The Bad Side of Good, Atelier Gallery,79 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2019 Holiday Gift Show, Known Space, 649 Irving St, San Francisco, CA
2019 Dialogues, Modern Eden Gallery, 801 Greenwich St, San Francisco, CA
2019 Mixdown, The Space Gallery, 2319 Santa Clara Ave, Ste B, Alameda, CA
2019 White Cube Challenge, The Space Gallery, 2319 Santa Clara Ave, Ste B, Alameda, CA
2019 Dialogues, Modern Eden Gallery, 801 Greenwich St, San Francisco, CA
2018 Marrow Gallery, 548 Irving St, San Francisco, CA
2017 Yes on Prop F, Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA
2016 Spin Group Show, 690 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA
2015 Mish-Mash Show, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Publications
2025 ShoutoutLA.com. February Publication
2016 The Artist’s Magazine, January/February Issue
2017 The Artist’s Magazine, January/February Issue
2017 The Artist’s Magazine, November Issue