Studio News 2021 – 2022

I’ve been making connections through my work over the last 4 decades and was honored to receive the California Arts Council Individual Artist Legacy Award 2021-22 https://arts.ca.gov/press-release/california-arts-council-announces-2021-individual-artist-fellows/?fbclid=IwAR0dZfi8jhb__3RNPw5m2xzmJlkhHBaoww5aqNVIJJptVBh7QEm52Zntmnw There are 21 CAC Legacy Artist Fellows as well as Emerging and mid-career Fellows.  “The Individual Artist Fellowships support artists from a broad spectrum of artistic practices, backgrounds, […]

Artifact Earthquake

October 17, 2020.  This is an excerpt from Wall Stories, my upcoming book that tells the stories of my murals and public art projects. Artifact Earthquake is the story of painting the mural on SOMarts and the day that I was on site when the 1989 Earthquake hit. Today we are in another disaster, the […]

Solo Show Opens March 29, 2018: Phyllotaxis and Parastichy in a Time of Love and War

We live in a time where science is fake and social algorithms entrap us. For the past century, botanists have studied the nature of phyllotaxis and the algorithmic beauty of plant growth patterns. The science that uncovers these systems that create life is the inspiration for this series of paintings and prints. Phyllotaxis is the […]

Naked Dahlia: The Harvey Milk Mural

NAKED DAHLIA I can’t grow dahlias. I have tried several times but they never poke themselves up through the dirt. The Harvey Milk Mural wall was discovered by my dear friend Rick Terry. It was not far from the dirty beige apartment building we lived in on the panhandle, in the Haight Ashbury. This site […]

Wall Stories: Chavez, Cigars, Murals, Marxists and Manongs

Chavez, Cigars, Murals, Marxists and Manongs I brought the wood cut outs along with the box full of acrylic paint jars. It was my second trip to Cuba during the “special period” of the 1990’s and this time I was going to paint a mural in Santiago as part of the international Internos project. Getting the […]

Pajaro Park Mural

I have not had a moment to update this blog since the last entry. Well, maybe I could have taken a minute or two but there was always something pressing to do or a distraction to get my mind off what I have to do.  Here is the first update. Spring 2014 Pajaro Park Mural. […]

High Stakes Divination Cards

Resonance of image and text is my form of divination. This set of High Stakes Divination Cards plays with the powers of suggestion. There is good fortune and then there is luck. There is chance and then circumstance. Predict your day. Choose a card to live by. Fortune telling is popular culture. Divination is a […]