Small artworks of animals, people, and abstract designs created with India ink and acrylic paint.

Current and Upcoming Events:

Tuesday, February 2
-Sunday, February 28

You are invited to Connections, a two-person art show featuring yours truly along with Lori Krein. Lori is an eco-friendly collage artist, art instructor, and host of the how-to art TV show "Lori Krein's Open Studio."

Where: Barefoot Coffee
5237 Stevens Creek Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95051
(on the northeast corner of Stevens Creek and Lawrence Expressway)
(408)248-4500
Mon-Fri 7am-9pm
Sat-Sun 8am-9pm

Saturday Night, March 20, 7pm-10pm
Sunday Tea, March 21, 11am-5pm
See three of my white rabbit paintings, along with the work of 30 other artists all inspired by the story of Alice in Wonderland, at Wonderland 2010.
992 S. 8th Street
San Jose, CA 95112

March
Step inside the minds of artists at the Sketchbook Show at Kaleid Gallery, where artists including yours truly will show their sketchbooks and the images that give them inspiration.

Saturday, May 1
-Sunday, May 2
I'll be showing with Lori Krein again, this time at her studio in the Alameda Artworks building for Silicon Valley Open Studios. The other Alameda Artworks artists will have open studios too - stop by for a look at the work of Donald Bruce Wright, Lucy Liew, Stacey Nussbaum, and many more.

Statement:

I am an artist who is interested in evolution, biodiversity, genetic engineering, and artificial breeding.

I think evolution is beautiful. It gives elegant explanations for why animals look and act the way they do. I am working on a series of one hundred small paintings that explore the idea of evolution in a playful way. They are all the same size, four inches by six inches.

I think of the paintings as little organisms that are all related to one another. Because they are related they have certain things in common, including India ink outlines and acrylic paint in a particular range of colors. If you look at a bird-watching field guide, you can see that related birds often have the same colors, just rearranged into different patterns. That is because they all inherited their colors from a common ancestor. A systematic, limited palette of colors gives the same kind of unity to my population of paintings.

Whenever I want to create a new painting, I start by looking at two of my earlier paintings side by side. I imaginatively combine their ideas, designs, and colors as I make a new “hybrid” offspring painting. Some of the designs that recur throughout my work are images of rabbits, birds, and women. Rabbits represent domesticity, comfort, and a certain childlike innocence. The women are self-portraits or alter egos; I draw them when I am in an introspective mood. Birds appear because they are the most visible creatures in my environment. Most mammals stay hidden, but it only takes a short walk around my apartment complex to see white-crowned sparrows, mourning doves, scrub jays, and more. In my painting series I am taking in all of these ideas, processing and reworking them, and watching as new and interesting forms evolve.