photo by Samara Alima
A color shift can hold a memory in place.
My practice moves through color and spatial flow, 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 emerging from layered gestures of color and texture, with repetition and restraint guiding its rhythm.
Landscape remains an ongoing presence in my work, especially the mutable horizon of Ocean Beach in San Francisco. I think of the horizontal as a site of pause, where looking slows and attention deepens.
My background in interior architecture and design shapes my sense of structure and proportion, balancing color with thoughtful order. Wax holds luminosity and depth, wood carries edge and volume, and each painting exists as both image and object. Through color and material, my work holds moments where memory lingers and material remains. And the landscape reduced to its barest vibration endures.
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