RAW AND UNCENSORED
This series represents my ongoing journey—both as an artist and as a person.
Through each piece, I aim to capture the essence of a single moment: raw, emotional, and unfiltered. My work invites viewers to pause, feel, and reflect on their own emotional landscape. At its heart, this series is about connection—an emotional exchange between artist and viewer.
Much of this exploration is deeply personal. I became a caregiver for my ill parents at a young age, often setting aside my own emotions to care for theirs. As an adult, reconnecting with my inner world has been challenging—but painting has given me a language to do just that.
This series is my way of navigating that terrain. Each work is a step toward understanding, expression, and healing. A visual journal of emotion, presence, and finding my voice.
Monster, Self Portrait (Searching for Grace)
36” x 36”
Year, 2024, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint, charcoal, molding paste, hard pastels and airbrush medium on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
Foundational
This painting began as a charcoal drawing. I continued building on the energy from the drawing by working in layers, using primarily acrylic paint. Then I further enhanced it by using an airbrush medium and hard pastels. The final product is intentionally imperfect, raw with the feeling of being unfinished. It is an expression of the fraying of social, economic, and political institutions, with an understanding these institutions are ever evolving, unfinished and imperfect.
48” x 36”
Year, 2022, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint, charcoal, and airbrush medium on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
Recess
48” x 36”
Year, 2022, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint and charcoal on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
Hope
This painting represents my continued desire to experiment with new techniques and dive deeper into my emotions. Connecting to my emotions can be a challenge. I often use exploration of a new technique to help explore my emotional landscape. I share these explorations in pieces that are not within a series. Creating this piece, expresses my hope to continue to bravely find my voice and share my story.
36” x 36”
Year, 2021, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
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Loneliness 2
24” x 24”
Year, 2021, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint, on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
Rupture
In August 2020, at the height of the pandemic, I tore the rotator cuff on my right shoulder. After surgery and many months of physical therapy, it was uncertain if I would regain full range of motion. I didn’t know if I could paint again. Severed from my art, my spirit felt broken.
Rupture expresses the loneliness, isolation and pain I felt during this time. This is 1 of 3 pieces I painted with my left, non-dominant, hand.
48” x 36”
Year, 2021 Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint, molding paste, and charcoal on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
His Eyes
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48” x 24”
Year, 2020, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
Obsession
Painting is my constant torment. It’s like living with an unrequited love. It’s my passion, my heartache, my drug of choice - it’s all consuming. I’m not at peace in my studio - I’m immersed and drowning in memories that are connected to deep emotions and not just the joyful happy ones. I find the saddest memories evoke the deepest emotions, and in turn creates the most beautiful paintings.
20” x 20”
Year, 2020, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
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Breath
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In the time of COVID, what a single breath means to me.
40” x 30”
Year, 2020, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint, charcoal, and Golden molding paste on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
Distance
I read a post on a friend’s Facebook wall that looked at the emptiness (on the streets, in airports and train stations, at stadiums), that negative space, as an outpouring of love. As a community coming together to show how much we care about one another. This inspired me to paint this piece.
This was painted during the first month of shelter in place. I really wanted this painting to celebrate the courage, love and solidarity echoed across the world. However, emotionally, I wasn't there yet.
25” x 25”
Year, 2020, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.
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Loneliness
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40” x 30”
Year, 2020, Ca. USA
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Golden acrylic paint and Golden molding paste on gallery wrapped, archival quality, acid free canvas over wood frame.