Location: United States
Education
1995 - 1997
MFA
Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles, CA, United States
1992 - 1995
BA
UCLA
Westwood, CA, United States
Group Exhibitions
2025 Summer Salon, Art Share LA, juried art show, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2025 Brewery Art Walk, Nicola Collection, juried group show, LA, United States
2025 Urban Pulse, San Gabriel, CA, United States
2025 Myths, Legends, And Folklore, Echo Park Art, CA, United States
2024 I Have My Own Plan, Shoebox, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2024 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2024 Seeing And Being Seen, Csun, Northridge, CA, United States
2024 Echoes Of The Unconscious, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2020 Online Exclusive Exhibition, Avran Fine Art online, CA, United States
2019 Rising Starts of La, Hive, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2017 5Th Year Anniversary: All Artists Reception, Avran Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2015 Myths And Legends, MOAH, Lancaster, CA, United States
2013 Scope New York, New York, United States
2013 Graphique Noir, Orange County, CA, United States
2013 Group Show At Whitespace Contemporary, Ogdent, Utah, United States
2013 Wall Painting, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, United States
2013 Art Fair Santa Fe, Santa Fe, CA, United States
2012 Gothic, OCCCA, Orange County, CA, United States
2012 Masquerade, Jack Fisher Gallery, San Franscisco, CA, United States
2010 Sylvia White Gallery- National Juried Exhibition Juried By Sylvia White, Ventura, CA, United States
2006 Tarfest, Tarfest Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Undercurrents, Avran Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA, United States
Teaching
2021-2025 Geffen Academy at UCLA
subjects: fine art, digital art, sculpture, animation
2020-2021 Newroads School
subjects: drawing and painting
2006-2011 Mt. San Jacinto College
subject: 2-d design
Designer
2016 – 2019 Hallmart Collectibles | Designer: Home Goods
2013 – 2015 Amrapur Overseas / Textile Designer: Bedding Products
2010 – 2019 Multiple Clients: Melco, Runway textiles, Heart and Soul clothing / Textile Designer
This current body of drawings are a combination of pen, ink, acrylic and colored pencil on mylar. The mylar creates a deep, milky, smooth, white space in which each form levitates and creates the illusion of existing in 3-dimensions. The drawings are created intuitively using only a simple symmetrical structure from which the lines and forms grow.
My work uses the visual language of European architectural aesthetics in their ornate and decorative tendencies coupled with a tradition of dark tales and myths born out of Eastern European life. Some influences include Hans Bellmer, H R Giger, tattoo art, and art nouveau.
The drawings evoke at once an Alien and ancient form combined with a hybrid of plant, animal, and human forms. The movement and repetition in the drawings evoke fractal like structures that are abundant in nature. Evolution is alluded to in the work as each form is an organic hybrid of various forms of life, depicted in a state of transformation and metamorphosis. The insect-like bodies appear to be evolving braids resulting in an overall human shape, thereby dissolving the distinction between plant, animal, and human categories and fusing abstract and figurative elements into one. The ultimate result reflects the evolutionary process of beginning with the simplest, one celled organism evolving into the various complex expressions of life.
mixed media on mylar
2010
67" h x 34" w
mixed media on mylar
2010
67" h x 34" w
mixed media on mylar
2010
67" h x 34" w
mixed media on mylar
2010
67" h x 34" w
Growth
2010
mixed media on panel
67" h x 33 1/4"w
mixed media on panel
2010
67" h x 33 1/4" w
mixed media on mylar
2010
55" h x 36" w
mixed media on panel
2010
55" h x 34"w
mixed media on panel
2010
67" h x 34" w
mixed media on panel
2010
67" h x 34"w
mixed media on panel
2009
mmixed media on panel
2009
34" w x 49"h
mixed media on panel
2009
My artistic practice is rooted in transformation and the dissolution of boundaries between life forms, echoing Surrealism’s fascination with metamorphosis and the unconscious. Water—its fluidity, force, and mutability—guides both my conceptual framework and material process. Like the gestural abstraction of Action Painting, I invite the organic behavior of materials to shape the work, allowing spontaneity and flow to co-create form. My sculptures resist fixed states, instead evolving with a biomorphic fluidity that blurs the lines between plant, animal, and human—between liquid and solid.
This instinct for hybridization has deep ancestral echoes. My grandmother was born in Transylvania, and from a young age I was steeped in the region’s myths, especially the lore surrounding Dracula. The vampire—neither fully alive nor dead, both feared and desired—embodies the liminal spaces that captivate my work. The mythologies passed down to me weren’t just stories, but psychological landscapes where identity, desire, and the unknown coexisted. Embracing and exploring the “shadow” of my unconscious is an important aspect of my art practice.
As a child, I was also enchanted by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid—a tale of transformation, sacrifice, and selfhood that mirrored the hybrid, feminine figures I identified with from Eastern European folklore. The mermaid’s dissolution into sea-foam resonated as a symbol of choosing one’s path at great personal cost, and affirmed my belief in the power of resisting containment. The path of my life as an artist reflects this core belief of following ones inner guide or intuition even if it involves sacrificing aspects of material comforts.
“Queen”
“Queen-detail”
“Untitled”
“Untitled-detail”
“Growth”
“Growth”
“Butterfly”
“Butterfly- detail”
“Beehive”
“Beehive - detail”
“Flight”
“Erinea”
“Crab”
