Join me and revisit Saturday morning cartoons, punk rock shows, and the remnants of our misspent youth.

My work evokes nostalgia for the '70s and '80s, sparking glee and exclamations of “I remember that!” This is the debris of your early life, reconstructed and reborn—a juxtaposition of our childhood, made fresh again.

I belong to a generation of misfit ‘70s kids who spent their youth unsupervised, cruising suburban neighborhoods on bikes, watching too much TV, and eating junk food. When the wave of Baby Boomer divorces hit in the early ‘80s, I found myself in Seattle's emerging punk music scene. Art and music were my escape. I attended a brief period at an artist’s high school and at the San Francisco Art Institute, but drugs and alcohol eclipsed everything. I was lucky to get out alive. 

 I now live in Alameda, California, back in the suburbs I so desperately wanted to escape from. You can find me driving my kids around in a Suburban, coaching Little League softball, being married, and having a career. I’ve come full circle. The only difference is that now I’m the artist I always wanted to be.

 My mixed-media paintings are a mishmash of pop culture, using acrylic, gouache, ink, pencil, and watercolor on canvas, paper, and wood. If you remember the TV shows, toys, movies, cartoons, music, and junk food from our youth, you'll see yourself in my work. I deconstruct and reassemble them into new forms. Come with me to the Island of Misfit Toys, reimagined.

My work has been featured in group shows at the Transmission Gallery (Oakland), the Hive Gallery (Los Angeles), the Grand Gallery (Oakland), Brassworks Gallery (Portland), Raven’s Gallery (Los Angeles), and Studio 23 (Alameda).