I grew up surrounded by the natural color fields of California’s San Joaquin Valley. Crop rotations regularly presented different shapes and textures, and each season brought new colors in sections and rows. The highways and roads slicing through the California landscape divide and order space into the most elemental forms of drawing and painting. Line and structure bear the weight of my compositions. Color ties them to emotion, while elements of abstraction and formal structure are incorporated to lend ambiguity to the implied narrative of each piece. The story is left to the viewer.

I am a painter, mother, and writer. As the granddaughter of a bracero in California’s San Joaquin Valley, I was exposed to great Mexican muralists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera while on a family trip to Mexico City as a child. Later, at university, I was introduced to the art of Jorge Posada, and my lifelong love of woodcuts, lithography, intaglio, and drypoint was born. While many contemporaries seek to explore new media, I’ve been seeped in the tradition of oil and ink for over thirty years.