photo by Samara Alima
A color shift can hold a memory in place.
My practice moves through color and spatial rhythm, exploring the tension between what is seen and what lies just beneath the surface. I create abstract, dimensional works from individually painted wooden shims layered with beeswax and pigment (encaustic). Each piece is a lyrical vignette guided by memory and intuition, holding traces of the hand and the shifting light that shape its form.
I think of the horizontal not simply as a line, but as a site of pause and suspension, where looking slows and attention deepens. Landscape remains an ongoing presence in my work, especially the mutable horizon of Ocean Beach in San Francisco, where light, memory, and rhythm continually reorganize perception. Through repetition, restraint, and subtle disruption, color unfolds slowly and is allowed to breathe through layers of wax and wood.
My background in interior architecture and design informs my sense of structure and proportion, shaping compositions that are measured yet porous, in which systems open rather than enclose. The materiality of the work matters. Wax lends luminosity and depth. Wood gives edge, volume, and a physical dialogue with space, allowing each painting to exist as both image and object.
Working abstractly from landscape, I feel a deep affinity with painters such as Richard Diebenkorn and Agnes Martin, whose work balances expansiveness with quiet precision. Their sensitivity to place and interior experience continues to guide how I see and compose. Through color, material, and rhythm, my work becomes a way of holding moments where memory lingers, matter breathes, and the landscape, reduced to its barest vibration, remains present.
E X H I B I T S
2025/2026 54 Galeria Mérida, Mexico Fronteras Blandas(Soft Boundaries) group exhibit
2025 Sealevel,San Francisco, CA Summer in the Sunset group exhibit
2025 Small Works Projects, San Francisco, CA Summer Open group exhibit, San Francisco
2024 Gallery 16, San Francisco , CA A curated friend wall, Jeffrey Sincich and Rose D’Amato solo exhibits,
2024 Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA Pint Size 2, juried exhibit
2024 Ekphraestival Portland, OR andnSoliloquy Fine Arts gallery, juried artists and poets collaboration
2023 Park Life II, San Francisco, CA Select paintings on offer
2023 Open studios San Francisco, CA. holiday faire at Jenifer Lake studio, ceramic artist
2022 Soliloquy Fine Arts, Portland, OR Landscapes: inside & out, Two-person exhibit with Ruth Meijer
2020 de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA OPEN, inaugural juried exhibit
2019 Art at the Hanger, Novato, CA. Marin Community Foundation. Ensemble: Selected Artist Members of MOCA,
2019 Marin MOCA, Novato, CA. Open to Interpretation, juried exhibit Honorable Mention
2019 MarinMOCA, Novato, CA. Artist Members exhibit