San Francisco Art Gallery - The McLoughlin Gallery

Artist’s Statement

This new body of work is a continuation on my previous exploration of projecting two-dimensional art-works into a three-dimensional space. This layering of visual stimulus seems to resonate strongly with living in a high-density urban environment, where individual existence is compressed, stacked and hidden amongst the vibrant writhing of a city. But, instead of merely cutting and pasting this visual stimulus onto the sterile material of canvas or plexiglass, as I have done in the past, I wanted to construct works directly out of the materials that frame the urban experience.

These pieces are my attempt to add to the rapidly expanding pantheon of urban artistic language. This is not street art. It is art done in response to the conditions out of which graffiti and street art arose. Around us everywhere, the local landmarks are falling into dust, while big money builds giant monoliths. I am channeling my culturally ingrained material obsession towards giving new life to materials that have been cast aside, trying to generate a formal beauty that is a distorted reflection of the natural beauty of urban decay. I am attempting to move from making objects that conform to the ideas of classical beauty, and instead shaping things that capture some of the essence of that which is graffiti beautiful.

Education

2005-2009, UC Santa Cruz, Graduated BA in Fine Arts

Awards

Graduated Cum Laude, Deans List, Fall 2008, Spring and Fall 2009

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

Beatnik Studios- Shades and Scripts, Solo Show, Sacramento, CA

2022- Solo Review, Oakland, CA

2009

Eduardo Carillo Gallery. Urban Reflections. Solo Show. Santa Cruz, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco

2012

The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco

2011

The McLoughlin Gallery, San Francisco

Gamma Space. Indelible Marks, Oakland, CA.

Private Collections

The de Lavandeyra Collection