Check out my new Interview in Artmajeur's Print Magazine, distributed in France! See the web version HERE.

 

 

 

The Living Artist podcast makes the Audible Blog List for Best Art Podcasts to listen to!

 

 

 

Thrilled to have my work included in the Art In Embassies program with the US Government, featured in the US Embassy in Cameroon. My two paintings are pictured below in the Embassy! Check out my AIE profile HERE and listen to my podcast interview with Morgan Fox of Art In Embassies HERE.

 

 

 

Check out my new Interview on Artmajeur through Artmajeur Magazine. Read the full interview HERE.

 

 

 

Listen to my new Interview on The Artist Business Plan podcast, sponsored by Superfine Art Fair. Check it out HERE.

 

 

 

Listen to my new Interview on Quarantining with the Chrises podcast. Check it out HERE.

 

 

 

The Living Artist was included in the Artwork Archive list of The Best Art Podcasts of 2021! Check it out HERE.

 

 

 

Read my new Interview and Podcast Spotlight with Discover Pods. Check it out HERE.

 

 

 

Read my new Exclusive, In Depth Interview with Lee Hudspeth. Read the whole article HERE.

 

 

 

Read my Exclusive Interview with Asymmetric Magazine for my Solo Exhibition, 'Playtime is Over?' at ShockBoxx Gallery.

 

 

 

The Beach Reporter's write-up of my Solo Exhibition, 'Playtime Is Over?'

 

 

 

Watch this Documentary Short on my artwork and mindset entitled "Negativity to Creativity", directed by Tony Lugo.

 

 

 

Check out some of my work in the Lift Gallery, a solo show in this virtual art gallery highlighting some of my large, textured abstracts and some fluid acrylics.

 

 

 

My painting "Awakening" is a winner in the 1st 2018 Arslant Prize Showcase!

 

 

I was commissioned to paint 12 almost identical portraits of President Barack Obama for the Inaugural Purple Ball during President Obama’s Inauguration in 2009. Paintings were distributed to celebrities attending the Ball such as Ed Harris, Ashley Judd, Josh Lucas, Patricia Arquette, Amy Brenneman, Amy Madigan, Il Divo, and more. 

Get the print HERE! Read the article about the event HERE.

 

 

Read my exclusive 2017 interview with Artfinder HERE.

 

 

My exclusive interview on Five Questions with Steve Molter from 2017, an eclectic collection of broad ranging interviews. 

Read the full interview HERE:

Photograph by Steve Molter, 2017.

 

 

In 2017 my Painted Wedding Dress design was featured in two articles on the Offbeat Bride website.  One article was on the amazing Vow Renewal wedding photo shoot, shot by Amy Haberland Photography. The other article was titled 9 Painted Wedding Dress Masterpieces You Have To See To Believe.

Also:

Commission your own original painted wedding gown here!

Photo taken by Amy Haberland Photography, 2017.

 

 

I work with the Bring Hollywood Home Foundation from time to time. They are a wonderful Los Angeles based organization that is fighting to keep creative job in California, founded by Sharon Jimenez. I have painted live paintings and auctioned off my original works to benefit this foundation's cause.  Below you can see a picture of one event I did auctioning off work at the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, and another live painting auction and music benefit at the Ann & Jerry Moss Theatre in Santa Monica, California where I painted a live painting with Gary Visconti that sold that night to benefit the foundation.

Read the Diamonds Mirror article on the event HERE.

 

 

In August of 2017, my artwork appeared in an article in Vegan Life Magazine.

Read the article HERE.

 

 

In January, 2017 my painting "When The Levee Breaks" appeared in a review of the "Ocean Exhibit" at Beyond The Lines Gallery on the Adilettante Blog, written by Joseph A. Hazani.

Read the review HERE.

 

 

In late 2017 Katrina Fox interviewed me for her podcast Vegan Business Talk.

Listen to the interview HERE.

 

 

In 2017, my artwork was featured in Issue #2 of Art Muzeo Magazine, a Los Angeles based online and print magazine. 

Check it out HERE.

 

 

In 2016, I was selected by the Motor Avenue Improvement Association to complete three mini murals for the city of Palms, California for their neighborhood beautification project. 

Check them out HERE.

 

 

In 2007, I painted and auctioned off a live painting at the Key Club in Hollywood, California for the David Lynch Foundation. My work was auctioned alongside David Lynch himself and all proceeds went to his wonderful foundation that brings Transcendental Meditation to those in need. Here are two pictures from the event below, one with the unfinished painting, and the other with the painting on stage being auctioned off to a rowdy Hollywood crowd!

 

 

Check out my exclusive interview on Go Vegan Radio, with Bob Linden!

 

 

In July, 2015 my painting "Shattered" took 3rd Place in the "All Abstracts" competition from Contemporary Art Gallery Online.

 

 

In 2015, I was selected as one of only 10 Los Angeles artists for the Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue "LA vs NY" where my work was highlighted. 

Check it out HERE.

 

 

Here are two articles featuring my work from 2014:

The Wall Breakers Article

&

Art and Photography Today Feature

 

 

A work in progress. One of two murals commissioned by the Tap Out company in Riverside, California.

 

 

Watch me create my painting "Lose Yourself" in 5 minutes here:

 

 

Here is the trailer to one of the short films I acted in (way back in the day) called Hector Corp. This short film won some nice awards at short film festivals and was directed by Gary H. Lee. Watch the trailer below and the film is also available to purchase from the iTunes store for $2.99 HERE.