In my residency at Chroma Gallery in Santa Rosa, I have been working on print making. Here are some of my newest pieces.

Follow the Money is my most recent exhibit. The concept is on money and how the value of our currency has declined. 

March 25, 2013 a new article talks about my work that was up recently in a downtown San Fransisco bank. Click the link bellow

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Money-artist-sees-work-noted-by-bank-4381006.php?t=dcd9a59825

Here is an article that was written in 2012 in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, it does a great job of explaining my work. Check it out 

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As I visited my piece showing at the SF Mission Cultural Center “Death by Installment Plan”  show one last time and got ready to un-install it – several people asked me if I  would explain some of the themes and thoughts behind what I had created… This alter was inspired by a piece made earlier this year of Benjamin Franklin – I’ve been delving for some time now into a visual conversation about the transiency of currency. I wanted to explore and discuss the ramifications of the financial tragedies we’ve experienced over the last years. 

As I mention in the video I tiled the roof of the structure using old statements from the three failed banks that did not make it thru the latest economic down-turn…a house built on unstable commitments, laced with drops of blood are for the carnage of the economic travesty rocking our Nation. Sprinkled with “faceless” dollar bills, marigolds (representing the sun gods), a calendar to note 30, 60 and 90 day overdue bills and finally a skeleton crushed under the house of a failed mortgage. These images work together to illustrate the pain, suffering and in-humanity of financial hardships. That money is so very transient and yet can affect so many real aspects of our lives.  You leave a piece of yourself inside each home you've occupied so inside the structure I laid fallen dollars, un-collected  payments, a corpse and broken down leaves and marigolds representing loss, death and devastation of the financial crash. 

Here I am at the San Francisco Gallery: Missionculturalcenter.org my piece is part of the " Death on the installment  plan" exhibition. Show runs at Main Gallery: second floor October:23-open till Nov 24th
Stay tuned for my thoughts on the piece and show...

Here I am organizing and getting ready to instal my piece for the "death by instalment plan" exhibition at the SF Mission Multicultural Center - The show runs thru 11/24/12

While in Ashland Oregon I visited the opening of the new exhibit at the Schneider Museum of Art on the campus of Southern Oregon University. There are paintings by Eva Lake and the main attraction is the rugs of the Teec Nos Pos.

I was told that these amazing symmetrical craft works had spirit holes where the spirit of each piece could enter and exit each piece.  So there I was looking at each blanket to find this very slight intended design flaw.  It felt as though I was looking for something that was wrong yet it was part of what made these rugs so intresting. 

Planning my trip to Ashland Oregon on Sunday to see my daughter, I will keep you updated with pictures and events that spark my interest. Here is a picture of a Flamenco troop at the green show, a free show put on every evening, which I plan to check out when I am in town.