Through the exploration of the figure, nature and the built environment, my work emerges from the social and cultural issues that confront us today.
Blog on the project can be found here. Installation created on-site while artist in residence at El Museo Del Barrio.
Installation indicating several of the 65 images created to document the Trujillo and the post-Trujillo era. Political images tell the story of the events leading to the Dominican Revolution, the participants and what happenned when it was all over.
One of several "family album" images showing Trujillo in military uniform.
Trujillo's head of secret service.
Trujillo took in several hundred Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
Haitian sugarcane workers lining up for water. "Antihaitianismo" became public policy under Trujillo and today remains an active legacy of his 31 year dictatorship.
Portrait of the iconic Mirabal sisters whose death became a watershed moment and was a catalyst for Trujillo's assassination six months later.
Mujeres de Abril protest.
Margarita Trujillo holds a fictional edition of LIFE magazine whose contents span the bloody history of DR starting with Trujillo's dictatorship and followed by Balaguer's dictatorship.
One of the thousands Women of April that fought in the Dominican Revolution/ US invasion of 1965.
One of the thousands Women of April.
The Women of April were untrained civilian resistance fighters.
One wall of the 65 images depicting the history which led to the Revolution. Images read from left to right.
Feminist images are central to an ongoing exploration of the figure. The Warrior Women series was the first series of images focused on the feminine as iconic warriors.
Mixed media, 44"x 88"
Graphite on paper, 54" x 72"
Graphite on paper, 54" x 86"
Oil on gessoed paper, 82" x 54"
Graphite on paper, 76" x 44"
Charcoal on woven fabric, 74" x 54"
Charcoal, collage , 44" x 76"
Graphite, 52" x 42"
Pastel, graphite on handmade paper, 28" x 14"
Oil on gessoed paper w/ wax medium, 60" x 68"
The Brooklyn streets are part of an ongoing series of images focused on the urban panorama and the social agency of local communities.
Cityscape exhibition in 2017 .
Detail view of intersection at Kingston Avenue and EasternParkway.
Mixed Media, acrylic, charcoal, tape, graphite on paper, 76" x 88"
Graphite on Paper 47" x 40"
Mixed Media, 36" x 20"
Oil on canvas, 30" x 20"
Oil on Canvas, 52" x 44"
96” x 42” graphite and lumber crayon on paper
“Sprung Rhythm” shown below “Eastern Parkway” part of The Alchemist In The City installation.
Installation at the NYPL George Bruce Library, Harlem.
Plen-air mixed media drawings and oil paintings created in Taos, the Hudson Valley, Governor's Island, Maine and Italy. Both the drawings and the paintings focus on mark making to build up the form.
Mixed Media, 54" x 54", 2014
graphite on paper, 54" x 54", 2014
graphite on paper, 54" x 54", 2014
graphite on paper, 10" x 78", 2017
Graphite on handmade paper, 26" x 18", 2014
Graphite on paper, 30" x 12", 2014
Oil on canvas, 24" x 24", 2014
oil on linen, 36" x 40"
These black and white works on paper are inspired by daily walks along Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway right before dusk. The fading light blended silhouettes together to create new forms. These images reflect the poetry of the Brooklyn Sky.
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink, acrylic on paper, 20" x 14"
Sumi ink, acrylic on paper, 18" x 14"
Acrylic, ink on paper, 20" x 14"
Acrylic, ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 19" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink, acrylic on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 18" x 14"
Sumi ink on paper, 20" x 12"
This series of paintings were created at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. They reflect the intersection of local history and faith. The pictorial language is borrowed from the folk art of the retablos found in New Mexico's mission churches. Traditionally the retablos are watercolor on wood, but these are oil on wood.
Oil on wood, 14" x 16"
Oil on wood, 14" x 16"
Oil on wood, 16" x 18"
Oil on wood, 6" x 8"
Oil on wood, 6" x 8"
Oil on wood, 6" x 8"
Oil on wood, 6" x 9"
Oil on wood, 8" x 16"
Oil on wood, 8" x 18"
Oil on wood, 8" x 18"
Oil on wood, 8" x 18"
Oil on wood, 4" x 6"
