Opening at Anka Gallery

Last night, Transcendent opened at Anka Gallery!

The value of art

I didn’t mean for this video blog to come across as quite so intimidating, but Raha The Riveter’s presence does seem to have that effect.

Art-Beat-ilicious!

Last night, my work was featured on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat.

Oregon Art Beat, me, and everyone I know

When KC contacted me about featuring my work on Oregon Art Beat, I was thrilled, but my exhilaration was followed immediately by an overwhelming sense of terror.  I was convinced I would be boring.  So I did what any portrait artist would do: I put my subjects in the spotlight!

Audience participation

I can’t listen in on every conversation had about my work, so I do the next best thing: I provide an anonymous venue for commentary which asks all the questions I wish I could ask of my viewers.  After all, art isn’t art without feedback from the audience.

Speaking of speaking…

I’m doing a talk tomorrow and I did one last week.  With all this lecturing, I’m thinking a lot about how best to engage an audience…

Erzulie Fitzgerald

This combination of a Haitian-American woman with a jazz singer and a Voodoo goddess is in a lot of ways the ultimate cultural mash-up for Apple Pie.

An oversized pile of letters

My Letter From The American Cousin had to be more than an allegorical portrait to work as a piece.

Letter From The American Cousin

Also known as an allegorical portrait of a young woman as a bald man. 

The Real Babe

I met Zan in a funny way: we went trick-or-treating a few years ago.  Somewhere along the way, she told me that she’s originally from Canada.  At the time, I was in full subject search mode for my series about what it means to be American, Apple Pie, so with her disclosure her fate was sealed: I had to have her as part of my collection!

Just because I’m showing at DIVA…

The opening party for Apple Pie at Eugene’s Downtown Initiative For The Visual Arts was so much fun!

Not your mother’s tarte aux pommes.

My Maman and I made her version of apple pie—a tarte aux pommes—for the opening of Apple Pie tonight in Eugene!

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