Like portraits, my paintings are windows into a complex character: the city in which I live. Each of its buildings--static, rigid, and stylistically cohesive by itself--is energized by the often-conflicting designs of its neighbors. The resulting arrangements reflect the lives and choices of the city’s residents, whose presence is implied by every structure, object and material in this landscape. For the most part, I do not focus on these inhabitants themselves, but rather on their contributions to the built environment. Geometric and intricate, the cityscape is as much a theater for light as it is for people. I find the architecture is most dynamic when the sky is lit, but the light is too horizontal to penetrate the elevated plane of the city’s rooftops. I chase the light around at these times of day, watching the city descend into film noir. There is an uneasy beauty in this urban landscape. Its vibrant splendor is a quarrel between natural light and artificial structure; the streetlights are its intermediaries.

cityscapes and landscapes
smith-klein gallery
boulder, co
september 2-31, 2005

I (heart) SF
canvas gallery
san francisco, ca
july 28-aug 23, 2005

shelter exhibition
million fishes gallery
san francisco, ca
www.shelterexhibition.com
may 28-june 4, 2005

altered barbie
shanghai normal university gallery
shanghai, china
march 2005

barbi speed graffiti
anon salon
san francisco, ca
aug 14, 2004

barbi speed graffiti
million fishes gallery
san francisco, ca
aug 13- aug 22, 2004

submerge
million fishes gallery
san francisco, ca
june 10, 2004

illusion 2
mission cultural center
san francisco, ca
june 25, 2004

north beach artists
studio 939
san francisco, ca
june 2003

undergraduate exhibition
university art museum
uc santa barbara, ca
may 20-june 16, 2002

senior show
gallery 1434
uc santa barbara
santa barbara, ca
april 2002

student exhibition
SACI Florence, Italy
april 2001
Florence, Italy