Installation view of the solo exhibition These Faces This History at the Havana Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Jan. 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1968 (Martin Luther King Jr). Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 60" x 86" in. 2008. 1968 is the year Martin Luther

King Jr was assassinated—a significant year for the civil rights movement in the US and globally.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golden Girl (After Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring). Acrylic and mixed media

on canvas. 30" x 40" in. 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Strength (A Portrait of Rain In The Face). Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.

30" x 40" in. 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

Decay of the American Idol (A Portrait of Marilyn Monroe). Digital File. Acrylic and mixed media on a 48"

x 60" canvas, photographed and digitally enhanced. 2008. I began this painting on August 5, the very day

Marilyn had died on in 1962, without even realizing this until later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeshua (Isaiah 53). Acrylic, gold leaf, sand, gravel, dirt, bible page and varnish on

canvas. 30" x 40" in. 2008. A portrait of Christ with his Jewish name “Yeshua”written in

Hebrew in gold leaf like a gold crown on his head, representing His role as the King of

Kings and the Prince of Peace. The white bar at the bottom center is a passage from

the bible, Isaiah 53, a prophecy of the sufferings Christ would face, written over 500

years before His crucifixion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Simplicity (A Portrait of Ghandi). Acrylic, graphite and tape on cardboard.

     44" x 62" in. 2008. Ghandi was a lawyer who renounced the comforts and

     prestige of a lawyer’s life to identify with the poor, fighting against oppression

     and racist laws. Many of the poor are treated like discarded cardboard...

     but everyone is beautiful and amazing in God's eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Untitled. Acrylic and mixed media on board. 32" x 42" in. 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 Bullfight (with Buffalo). Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 30" x 40" in. 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rauschendeer. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 30" x 40" in. 2008. References

the work of Rauschenberg, Schnabel, Carl Beam and Cy Twombly’s "Bacchus."

 

 

 

 

 

FLEa. Acrylic and mixed media on board. 32" x 42" in. 2008. A flea with a dog in the center. References the

work of Basquiat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caveman 1492. Acrylic and mixed media on board. 39" x 46" in. 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still Wild Life. Acrylic, latex and industrial paint on canvas.

26" x 42.5" in. 2008. References the work of Jackson Pollock.