About Me BFA Drawing Boise State University 2007MFA Boise State University 2011 I was born in Idaho in 1979 and grew up navigating the farming communities between Florida and back to Southern Idaho. I was heavily influenced by visual culture, and it has had a heavy influence in my artwork. I earned a BFA in drawing with a secondary emphasis in Mesoamerican studies in 2007. Likewise, I earned my MFA from Boise State University in 2011.Artist Statement  As a visual artist my focus is the human constructs of borders as areas of tension and unrest. Utilizing various mixed mediums on panel I envision the border as a liminal space that serves as a literal transitory space between lands and also serves as a phenomenological space of contention. Concepts such as borders and “homelands” identifiably relate for me in a quest to envision and create a body of work that specifically alludes to these contemporary issues. My family's narrative has a direct relationship with so many other families as they transition through this space of contention. I foresee liminal spaces of transition as metaphors of past “hyphenated” culture to  today's growing “plural society.” 

About Me 

BFA Drawing Boise State University 2007

MFA Boise State University 2011 

I was born in Idaho in 1979 and grew up navigating the farming communities between Florida and back to Southern Idaho. I was heavily influenced by visual culture, and it has had a heavy influence in my artwork. I earned a BFA in drawing with a secondary emphasis in Mesoamerican studies in 2007. Likewise, I earned my MFA from Boise State University in 2011.

Artist Statement 

 Utilizing various mixed mediums I envision my culture through the lense as a liminal figure navigating the spaces in between two worlds that I encompass and the language as it has evolved over time. A concept that I am interested in is how passed languages in a pictorial form translate into todays lexicon of meaning. I envision pictorial forms of language in Mexican culture, such as an inscription on a stelae written in Mayan logoglyphic form, and conceptualize the intent of that form juxtaposed into todays logo form of graffiti. The process of my art making is driven by exploring mediums and an investigation of combining two aesthetics into a unifying visual vocabulary similar to the combination of my two worlds into my unique identity.