Works

The Six of Cups mural was created in the Spring of '23 for Kathryn and Lewis Shepherd. The mural sits in conversation with the early modernist visions of the Italian Futurists, Russian Constructivists, and German Expressionists while evoking the new world origins that inspired the creation of piece in its original Washington, D.C. home.

Succubus - A 21st Century She-Devil personifying the automated collective consciousness vampirizing the soul of the individual. She is playing with her cellphone, a man bound helplessly to the screen. From her pineal gland to his crotch area extends an ambiguous energy beam. She towers over an archaic fantasy city. Her skin is embedded with circuity, and she wears a sort of chrome armor bikini. It is at once an allegory for humanity's relationship with the internet, and a satire of old courtship games invented with social media and smartphones.

The painting was presented at Burning Man 2018. It was art for the 'I, Robot' Theme of the festival and was installed in the "Man Pavillion" at the three o'clock position of the pedestal on which the Man was mounted.

This is a series of watercolors I began while staying in Tokyo in the Fall of 2015. They are what I could do with watercolors and ink pens of various sorts (I was especially enthralled with the brush pens available everywhere in Tokyo). I would improvise something on one page of a small watercolor block in a few hours and then start another. About 20 were completed in all, and I later came to call them "Acceptance", because the improvisational nature of the drawing felt like a kind of self-acceptance that really differed from the exacting standards of the large scale "Crossroads of Curiosity" I had createdin 2014-15.

Burlesque. A 'Bestiary of the Burlesque'. This painting celebrates the strip joint, cabaret, and exotic dance club while satirizing it exaggeratedly. The painting expresses moral outrage while fetishistically lingering indulgently on every regrettable tresspass of common decency. Executed in 2015-16, the painting initially derived from a sketch made late one night at Canter's Delicatessen (24 hr Jewish Deli in Los Angeles) in 1991 .

Flesh Parade I and II are a pair of small paintings that explore a motif of fantastical fetish faux wall reliefs. Flesh Parade I was produced as a large print and used as decoration at Kinoko Hajime's bondage club, Bar Kun Kun, in Ueno, Tokyo. The paintings were also shown at Flame-o-Rama gallery at 1920 Polk St, SF as part of the Tableax group show.

Malpractice was created for the Institue of Crazyology Show in 2013. It began as a digital collage before being paited over with acrylic. This piece has been shown before as an Ilumination

Mistress, May I? is a provocative painting that grapples with the commodification and fetishization of gender, sexuality, and race.

Shibari Sketches are a collection of sketches created at various kink and rope bondage events.

Believe it or not, this is my one and only effort to make anything resembling a comic strip. "Start small" is advice I just can't seem to ever listen to. Nope, I had to start with a graphic novel of a very complex sci-fi classic, Philip K. Dick's, "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (one of my all time favorite books!). I didn't quite get as far as finishing one chapter. I guess it's nothing to brag about, but I think I was off to a good start, and, who knows, may return to it if the stars align . . .

| Torture Garden is one of the painting/collages I was creating around 2013 that is a hybrid of original painting, original photography and collage elements that was developed through an iterative process of photoshop (digital collage), large format printing, and acrylic painting.

The name for this painting derives from the Sanskrit word,'Saṃsāra,' which refers to the flow of life through experience and incarnations. Saṃsāra is often conceived of as a cycle or wheel of experience, and in this depiction the wheel revolves around the soulless eye of this Cyclopean Receptionist as though it were the eye of a storm.

Chemical Imbalance is a small oil painting, part of the "Illuminations" series I completed between 2008-2016 of highly detailed (what I would characterize as "medieval" or at least monkish or goliardish - as the case may be) paintings. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, this painting was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. Chemical Imbalance is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Conception grapples with cause and effect, action and reaction, centralized in the figure of the Jellyfish. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, Conception was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Gallow's Humor is part of the 'Illuminations' series. This painting was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

The Human Tree, featuring its strange figures sawing down the tree is emblematic to me of the experience of quitting painting. The completion of this painting has come to represent a renewal, like a film played in reverse of Roman soldiers that, by working their saw, are causing a fallen tree to be rejoined, stand up and grow once again. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, this painting was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The Human tree is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

No Parking Zone is part of the 'Illuminations' series, displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Traffic Jam is part of the 'Illuminations' series, displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Cognitive Libertines plays with themes of knowing and understanding. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, this painting was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Lord of Misrule is inspired by the lore of the 'Carnival King,' the temporary soverign chosen in mockery from Roman times onward in a patchwork of Pagan and Christian customs that survive today in Carnival and related holidays. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, Lord of Misrule was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Initial ideas for The Pool arose from an outing with some friends to see a turtle derby in Los Angeles during the summer of 2005. Perhaps the large rectangular ring set up as the racing rink for the turtles suggested the cubic bath central to the composition. Part of the 'Illuminations' series, The Pool was displayed in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York as well as at the Institute of Crazyology between 2012-14. The painting is one of 8 glowing lightpanels, originally suspended in a dark room and generating their own light to cast their likenesses over the space around them.

Handbills for 1993 summer solstice party, La Fete Sauvage. This handbill really reflects the period - punk and rave influences were combining. Things like the Big Bang parties and Club Fuck were really influential for the LA crowd. This was more of a punk show (imo) featuring lots of LA Cacophony people.

These are pen and ink drawings, black and white drawings mostly, from sketchbooks going back all the way to my teenage years. Indeed, perhaps the majority of these drawings were executed between 1987 and 1993 (from the time I was 17 until 23). In those early years it was my habit to carry a sketchbook with me everywhere and whenever I felt uncomfortable, socially or otherwise, I would retreat to the sketchbook. Because I felt uncomfortable most of the time, a great deal of drawing got done.