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Portfolio Highlights
2008
Spirit a' Risen
At the Library of Congress on June 5th, 2008, during the National Tour of "New Orleans: Spirit a' Risen".
Oshun Watches Over New Orleans (36"x 48") Acrylic on Canvas, 2003.
A painting commemorating the Louisiana Bicentennial.
Premiered at Barrister's Gallery in The "Louisiana Purchase Dismantled" Group Show and evacuated in 2005.
An allegorical interpretation of the life of New Orleans since it's birth and leading up to its present. The imagery foretells of the catastrophic events which New Orleans was to experience two years later.
2007
Fleur de Flora
SOLD, for $7,500 at auction, by the Fore!Kids Foundation.
The New Orleans Arts Council sponsored a public art competition for fleur de li designs to be displayed throughout the Greater New Orleans area. Over 200 proposals were submitted and approximately 40 were chosen. This piece is a collaboration between myself and metal artist Luis Colmenares. It was showcased at the 8th District Police Station in the heart of the French Quarter, (as shown below).
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The Struggles With Subjectivity
Read a review."...the imagination must by long custom acquire the same method of thinking, and run along the parts of space and time in conceiving its objects. --Hume
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2006
The Goddess Portraits
T his series first began as an exploration of the nature of the Self, borne out of the concept that each individual is the physical embodiment of a divine universal force. Now it also stands as an affirmation of the strength of the human spirit. In various spiritual teachings throughout the world, humankind is considered a reflection of a Divine Force. We can only especulate, and we certainly love to do so. I've heard said that man was created in the image of God. Each painting began as a portrait of a real woman, and throughout the creative process emerged a diety, inspired by their individual traits and personalities and superimposed onto various Goddess mythologies. I decided to begin the series with the Divine Feminine because the strength and beauty of the women that surround me is worthy of honor. I believe that a part of the role of the artist in our society is to be a visual historian and I consider this series as much a conceptual project as a small historical record of these magnificent women, many of whom are New Orleans survivors. I present to you my personal account of the rise of the Goddess within our culture...
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2005
The Hybrid
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The Ink Meditations
"Creativity is an essential part of being human, a vital force without which we can exist, but not truly live... creativity [is] an ongoing flow within us and around us, to which we can all open if are willing to let down our guard...[To practice an art] is to explore the act of creation as a spiritual practice, as a way of awakening to our true nature and contacting the beauty and mystery of our lives." --Rudolf Steiner quoted in Art as a Spiritual Activity
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