Exhibitions
- Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, California
- In These Uncertain Times, 2021
- Irwin Scholars Exhibition, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 2023
Awards & Honors
- Nominated, Yale Norfolk School of Art Residency
- Departmental nomination. Norfolk admits twenty-six rising seniors annually from a national pool.
- Irwin Scholar, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 2023. The Art Department's principal juried award for studio practice.
- Irwin Project Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Two-time recipient
- Eduardo Carrillo Memorial Art Scholar
- John Faulkner Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Art
- Silver Key, Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz — Art
Statement
My paintings develop through extended, durational sessions of sustained attention — often ten to thirty hours at a single canvas. The practice is rooted in a disciplined openness: allowing an image to emerge gradually through a process that prioritizes perception, presence, and receptivity over premeditated form.
The work is characterized by luminous fields of color, shifting spatial atmospheres, and forms that hover between figuration and dissolution. Light functions not only as a visual element but as a structural force — organizing the surface while suggesting an interior radiance that exceeds the material itself. Through layered gesture and subtle modulation, the painting builds a depth that is less illusionistic than experiential.
Positioned between abstraction and visionary image-making, the work engages a lineage of painting concerned with the phenomenology of seeing and the potential of the image as a site of encounter. Each painting operates as a contemplative field — one that unfolds slowly, asking for a mode of attention attuned to nuance, duration, and the quiet intensity of inner experience.