Somewhere Out There, Something Is Happening is an ongoing series of artist print books, including photographs and fragmentary text, that meditate on the physical places and psychological spaces of the contemporary American social landscape.
Examines the selling of companionship and “glamour shot” images of women on escort cards that become discarded the fountains and gardens of the Las Vegas Strip, an area known as Paradise.
Momentous Reckoning reimagines the presence and absence of the Confederate monuments that were erected after the Civil War. Using appropriated negatives from the Jim Crow-era postcard archives of the Detroit Publishing Company along with text from various Confederate monument inscriptions, the book confronts our perceptions and understanding of race and the legacies of history with a contemporary reckoning of societal transformation and change. With each monument image, the statue has been extracted, leaving a slight trace of what was once present.
Once known as the “petroleum graveyard,” Beneath the Dirt of Great Men exposes the carbon landscape in the Permian Basin of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. With climate change, land use, and energy policy at the forefront of our national consciousness, the work contemplates the extraction of crude oil and natural gas in the largest reserve of these natural resources in the United States.
Collections
Scripps College, Denison Library Special Collections
Stanford University, Bowes Art & Architecture Library
University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library Pictorial Collections
University of California, Santa Cruz, McHenry Library, Special Collections
University of Southern California, Special Collections
Estamos Buscando A is a multi-faceted series that explores and contemplates the migrant experience in Mexico along the U.S. – Mexico border through various practices, including site-specific public art installation, a gallery installation as well as a migrant guide photo book, spanning a period of 15 year from 2002 – 2017.
Inspired by a dream about seeking comfort and solitude in a moment of isolation, Bajo La Luna Verde | Under The Green Moon is a backlit transparency (48 x 72 x 2 inches) and an artist book, revealing a personal narrative while being alone during a day and night in the Sonora Desert in Mexico in an attempt to cross the U.S. – Mexico border twelve miles west of the Sasabe Port of Entry.
With the support of a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship in 1997 and drawing inspiration from the pulp comic of the same name, Tierra Brava traverses a personal psychological space within the color of a place mired in contradictions; the U.S. – Mexico border. It is a place that is in a constant search for its own sense of identity, juggling the traditions of culture and history of the interior with the pleasures and promises of prosperity and a better life of its northern neighbor. It is not Mexico and not the United States, but rather something and somewhere in-between.
Secrets stay behind and anything goes in this desert playground of Las Vegas. Gardens of Paradise embraces the grit of paid companionship and sexuality in the casino fountains and gardens of the Strip, an area known as Paradise.
Lure of the Open provokes past memories of the rights of passage into manhood and coming to terms with loss through the bonding experiences of fishing and hunting in Nature’s wilderness.
Collections
Stanford University, Special Collections – Gunst Collection
Explores the migrant experience in Mexico along the U.S. – Mexico border where the quest for a greater understanding of purpose and meaning is universal to our collective existence.
Volumes Nº1 – Nº3 includes 75 photographs that reveal the exploration of a personal psychological space within the color of a place mired in contradictions; the U.S. – Mexico border.
A sad and tragic reflection on our desire for financial comfort and success at the expense of personal and environmental well-being, considering the relationship between the industrial landscape of Louisiana along the Mississippi River and chain-smoking businessmen on Wall Street in New York.
Experiences the lives of migrant grapepickers in the vineyards and while living with them under a bridge near the Russian River in the wine country of Northern California.
Considers a personal journey of what might have been after being told as an 8-year old son that one day he might be living on the street as a runaway and homeless in Los Angeles and San Franciso.
And Then The Sky Turned Angry
Beneath the Dirt of Great Men
Dance All Night
Gardens of Paradise
It Was A Beautiful Dream
Lest We Forget To Remember
Lift Every Voice
There Shall It Be
Where Wonders Surround You
Whispers from the Apple Orchard
Estamos Buscando A (2002 – 2004)
Nuevo Amanecer (1998)
Tierra Brava Nº1 (1996 – 2010)
Tierra Brava Nº2 (1996 – 2010)
Tierra Brava Nº3 (1996 – 2010)
Cancer Alley (1993 – 1995)
Los Vendimiadores (1988 – 1989)
Where The Sidewalk Ends (1987 – 1989)