VIEWING THE NEW WORK :

Artists are concentric gauges, where their position becomes central to capturing the patterns in social, natural and physical environments. By adjusting the sensitivity and perimeter, an artist can measure and record static information ranging from the immediate to the universal and dynamics from the ephemeral to the eternal. This feedback is then captured and funneled through a psychological filter and recorded with iconographic language. The technical method of execution, the extending range, and how well a transposed icon embodies an idea are the only differences amongst decorative and conceptual artists.

Immediate surroundings, albeit; color, form, graphics, news, are mimicked throughout my work by way of ornamental icons. On an intermediate level every effort is made to relate those same temporal icons to pre-existing ideas. The universal is implied by the motifs whose elements have become part of our historical make up in art and society. Some icons have multiple meanings relative to mulitple levels on a piece. A seed becomes a flower petal becomes a wind turbine blade. The immediate becomes more than what is painted and guides the viewer into further extrapolations. Often, there are those pieces that relate to a single moment encapsulating a universal social blessing or ill. While poetic additions are minimal to the work, there are moments where poetics serve as the only guide to the image at hand.

It is my hope to create work that sheds a continuous light on humanity and culture as it was, as it stands and as it might be in the years to come.

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AUGUST 21 2 0 09
CINCO
Bering and James Gallery
Houston, Texas

APRIL 9 2 0 09
The Last Supper Illuminated
Bering and James Gallery
Houston, Texas

N O V E M B E R, 2 0 08
Filament, Group Show
Bering and James Gallery
Houston, Texas

A U G U S T , 2 0 08
CINCO, Group Show
Bering and James Gallery
Houston, Texas

MAY 3, 2 0 08
On The Nature of Time, Solo
Bering and James Gallery
Houston, Texas

Primary focus on revision of
Cerca Trova: The Last Words of Leonardo da Vinci.
Consulting work of Carlo Pedretti, Carmen Bambach, Ladislao Reti,
Edward MacCurdy, Marco Cianchi, Alessandro Vezzosi, Serge Bramly.
The coming year should bring a thoroughly researched revision of the book.

S E P T E M B E R, 2 0 07
Look Beneath The Surface: Houston Rescue and Restore Coalition
Houston, Texas

A P R I L , 2 0 0 7
Watershed Public Art: Environmental Public Billboard
Houston, Texas

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 6
Unveiling: Apocryphal Mona Lisa
Artists Studio: Honoring art patron Wael Al Humaidhi
Houston, Texas

M A Y, 2 0 0 6
Cerca Trova
Lafayette, Louisiana

D E C E M B E R, 2 0 0 5
Palates and Pate
Lafayette , Louisiana


Night of 1,000 Drawings
Artists Space, N.Y N.Y

O C T O B E R, 2 0 0 5
Day of the Dead
Lawndale Art, Houston, Texas

J U L Y, 2 0 0 5
The Big Show
Lawndale Art, Houston, Texas

Group Art Show
Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, Louisiana

Face
Artcar Museum
Houston, Texas

A p r i l, 2 0 0 5
Coexistence
Space 125 Gallery, Houston, Texas / Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem>, Israel

Recipient of Von Holtzbrinck Award

A p r i l , 2 0 0 5
Group Art Show
Mind Puddles Gallery, Houston, Texas

M a r c h , 2 0 0 5
Group Art Show
Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, Louisiana

D e c e m b e r , 2 0 0 4
No Attachment
SubAtomic Mobile Gallery, Houston Texas

D e c e m b e r , 2 0 0 3
Miraculous: Contemporary Exvotos Paintings
ChezTGN Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

D e c e m b e r , 2 0 0 3
On the Threshhold of Love and War
Northlight tudios, NY, NY

M a r c h , 2 0 0 3
Defibrillator
Mixed Media Studios, Booklyn, NY>

O c t o b e r , 2 0 0 3
Group art show
Niagara, NY, NY

O c t o b e r , 2 0 0 1
Dia de los Muertos retablos
Lawndale art and performance Center, Houston, TX

J a n u a r y , 2 0 0 0
Inventing Mirth: paintings, drawings collage and theory on the perpetual pursuit of happiness
Mo Mong Restaurant, Houston TX

N o v e m b e r , 1 9 9 8
Seven on Illusive Innocence
Luna 527 Gallery (Apama Mackey gallery), Houston, Texas

M a r c h , 1 9 9 7
F Studio Launches Black and White exhibit and Willie Wicked Rides Again.
F Studio, Houston, Texas