Mark your calendars for my October Show! “Life is But a Dream” will be on display in downtown Lodi at the Lodi Community Art Center this October.

Detail of one of my pieces for the show.
“Numinous”
Pen on paper.

The show will explore the richest parts of life: the fleeting ones.

Sometimes those moments are the daydreams in which you lose yourself, then barely remember when you emerge into the waking world, or the brief glimpses of beauty you try to capture forever.

Detail of one of my pieces for the show.
“Pull”
Colored pencil on Strathmore toned black paper.

My show will also explore introspection: the pieces of your life that you try to analyze over a lifetime. Why do certain things persist in our minds? Will we ever get beyond them?

In progress piece for my show.
Title is TBD!
Acrylic paint on canvas.

In progress piece for my show.
Title is TBD!
Prismacolor colored pencil on drawing paper.

Certain dreams and desires also follow us through our lives. Part of being human, I think, is a deep longing to explore and understand something beyond ourselves…

Progress shot 1 of a piece for my show.
“Loss”
Acrylic paint on Bristol board.

Progress shot 2 of a piece for my show.
“Loss”
Acrylic paint on Bristol board.

Progress shot 3 of a piece for my show.
“Loss”
Acrylic paint on Bristol board.

Come out in October for an exploration of all that makes life so nebulous - and what makes us human.

Save the Date for my October 2025 show. On display through the month in downtown Lodi CA.

You’re invited! This August I will be the featured artist at the Lodi Community Art Center. You may remember my last featured show from May of 2019, where I displayed several vividly colored portraits and figure pieces. This time, I will be displaying both new works and several pieces that have been in my portfolio for some time, but have never been publicly displayed. Among them is one of my favorites, “Illuminate.” You can read more about its history here, but as a brief backstory, it is the first piece I completed after many years of not drawing at all, and I regard it as a sort of guardian of my art - hence its presence on my business cards, website, Facebook page, and basically all platforms where I display, discuss, and promote my work.

“Illuminate” Oil pastel on illustration board.

Recently I pulled this piece out of its safely stored place, spruced it up a bit, and rephotographed it. The restored image is above. I am very happy to see it a bit brighter, clearer, and at its most magical. This month I will finally get it framed!

My August show opens Friday, August 6th; opening reception 5:30-6:30pm. The show will be up through the month.

In addition to “Illuminate,” which is over a decade old and has never been publicly displayed, I will also be showing new works done in pen and colored pencil as well as never before displayed works from my portfolio in oil pastel, chalk pastel, and of course, my favorite - colored pencil.

The pieces I’ve selected for this show explore the psyche - what makes us think, feel, and why? What will we find when we dare to be our most introspective? How deep does our consciousness go?

Clockwise from top left: “Epiphany” pen and colored pencil; “Eyeris” colored pencil; “Tree Woman” chalk pastel; “Balance” pen and colored pencil.

Come out to Lodi on August 6th and see the whole show!

Lodi Community Art Center

110 W Pine Street, Downtown Lodi CA