La Luz de Jesus Coaster Show

"A Dusky Night"

acrylic and graphite on card stock

4" tondo

$125.00

available HERE or HERE or call 323-666-7667 to purchase

"Of A Thousand Young"

acrylic and graphite on card stock

4" tondo

$125.00

available HERE or HERE or call 323-666-7667 to purchase

"A Sparkling Night"

acrylic and graphite on card stock

4" tondo

$125.00

available HERE or HERE or call 323-666-7667 to purchase

Here's my pieces for the 3rd Annual Coaster Show at La Luz de Jesus in Hollywood.

I'm very excited to be in such great company with so many awesome artists and such a legendary gallery!

My pieces are available on the above link or by contacting the gallery directly!

3 Person Show Paintings

Here's my contributions to the three person show opening TONIGHT in Denver, at Sally Centigrade Gallery.  

These paintings have been deeply cathartic in their creation and have a lot of personal symbolism.  

My paintings are showing alongside the work of Elena Gunderson and Kim Gordon and can all be purchased HERE.

"Ruby"

acrylic on birch panel

8 x 10 inches plus frame

2015 

Available HERE

"Garnet"

acrylic on birch panel

8 x 10 inches plus frame

2015

Available HERE

"Älskling"

acrylic on birch panel

11 x 14 inches plus frame

2015

Available HERE

"Sötma"

acrylic on birch panel

11 x 14 inches plus frame

2015

Available HERE

Moon Guardian

"Moon Guardian"

acrylic on birch panel

8 x 10 inches framed to 12 x 14 inches

2015

$575.00

Available HERE

Here's my painting, "Moon Guardian" for "Celestial", opening July 18th at Alexi Era Gallery.

The show features a lovely lineup of pieces inspired by the ever-inspiring stars.

My ghostly white fox spirit lovingly wraps it's many tails around the moon, the planets keeping company nearby.  The two constellations near the fox are Pieces and Leo; my own two astrological signs.

I was very honored to contribute a piece to this show, as I am always so inspired by the universe, stars and night sky.

Wild Spirit

"Wild Spirit"

acrylic on deep cradled birch panel

12 x 18 inches, unframed

2015

$950.00

Available HERE

Here's my painting, "Wild Spirit" for Gristle Gallery's "Libertine" show, opening Saturday, July 18th in Brooklyn.

I was greatly inspired by the definition of a Libertine; a being unrestrained by moral, religious and sexual boundaries.  I wanted to portray such a being; a fearless spirit that exists outside of the realm of the more timid creatures.

I chose lisianthus flowers to place amongst them as their meaning in Floriography (the Victorian era language of flowers) is "showy".

Moonlight Fawn

 

Here's my little 5 x 7 inch "Moonlight Fawn" drawing, available HERE on my webstore.
It's the first of what I hope to be several small, affordable drawings available directly through me.

Emanate

"The Fox and The Cat"

acrylic on birch panel 

11 x 14 inches plus frame

$800.00

available for purchase HERE

For this painting, I chose to interpret the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, "The Fox and The Cat".  The tale was simple: a fox boasts that he has many tricks and a cat confesses that he has only one.  The fox is caught by hunters and the cat climbs a tree and escapes them.  The tale is supposed to teach that in times of danger, one option is more effective than having many at one's disposal.

I'm not sure how helpful or true that tale is, but I wanted to paint the fox and cat in my own interpretation, so here, the ghostly fox protects the cat; the foxes' skull is seen at the bottom of the painting.  Also, the fox is shown with several tails, like the Japanese kitsune, with each tail representing more luck.

"The Fox and The Cat" will be showing tonight in Alexi Era Gallery's show, Emanate, which is the first at their new location.

Bullies No More

"Bullies No More"

acrylic on birch panel

20 x 20 inches

2015

$1,100.00
info@moderneden.com to purchase

Here's my painting for "Storybook", curated by Michael Cuffe of Warholian for Modern Eden gallery in San Francisco.

For this show, each artist chose a childhood book to reinterpret in their style.  I picked my favorite children's story, "The Littlest Rabbit" by Robert Kraus.  I've loved this simple, illustrated tale since childhood, and not only have used it as inspiration for another painting in the past as well as this one.

In "The Littlest Rabbit", a tiny bunny's life is made miserable by the bigger bunnies just because he's smaller.  When he finally grows, he seeks revenge against his bullies and stands up to protect the new littlest rabbits against their foes.  The title in this piece comes from the line in the book,
"All bullies are cowards!"

In my painting, I wanted to focus on the dark, ominous tone of the book, despite it being a children's story.  My Littlest Rabbit sits between altar candles lit upon the bullies' skulls.  Black magic may have been used to off the foes, who stand guard over him now, in death.

In the book, the Littlest Rabbit was described as being no bigger than a flower, so I wanted to use a lot of Floriographic (the Victorian language of flowers) imagery to compliment elements of the story; sunflowers (the bullies' haughtiness), morning glories (the evanescent loveliness of life), plum blossoms (courage, happiness, perseverance), and iris (promise).