Border Destroyer

This 5000 square foot mural was made specifically for the University of New Mexico University Museum in 2024. This university is located in Las Cruces New Mexico, in the region I grew up in, on the border of the U.S and Mexico, situated on Indigenous land that is to this day being contested. The imagery in the mural is illustrating the passage of time, two suns in different times attacking the severe shape of a border wall, creating new life and possibilities. A fantasy and illustration of the possibility of art and education that rallies against the categorical separation of and state bred violence against peoples merely trying to survive. The mural included student work on one side from a painting assignment I developed for intermediate and advanced painting students.

Shape Stroll

This 90 ft long 8 ft tall mural occurs on both sides of 34th street on the west side of Manhattan. It will be on 34th street between 9th and 10th avenue from 2024-2025. The shapes are echoing the pedestrian journey in the city. This mural was a community based mural, meaning that the general public was invited to come paint. Community murals are important engagements for artists or otherwise to experience painting in public on a large scale. I learned so much about painting large scale during community painting days for other artists' projects so it was lovely to be able to lead my own. 

Context Shift

Context Shift is a monumental 11,000 sq ft  Acrylic paint on wall mural made for The Momentary in Bentonville AK in 2024. The concept of this mural is one of a literal perception shift. The colors on the mural flip, foreground becoming background on each side of the building. The drawings and shapes are based on an abstracted version of Papel Picado, a traditional Mexican paper craft. 

Pase Usted

This 5,000 sq ft Acrylic on wall mural was made for the San Antonio Museum of Art in 2023. The mural is an attempt to bridge the encyclopedic collections in the museum. I searched through the collections until I found a spiral shape that repeated throughout several of the collections despite geographical and temporal differences. The spiral shape could be a wave, or a leaf, or just a dynamic shape. This shape is often on vessels in the various collections of the museum, which made sense, almost all peoples eventually make a clay vessel of some sort. These vessels are then adorned and painted. The idea for this mural was to turn the central lobby of the San Antonio Museum of Art into a giant cultural vessel, echoing the patterns found on the various collections within.

Pajarito

Pajarito is a site specific mural painted on the 15th floor of the Empire State Building in New York, NY in 2022. This mural was challenging, it is located in an elevator bank and presented a very unique set of functional architectural features to work around. I am thrilled to have a permanent work in the iconic Empire State Building.