I was born in the Philippines in 1978 and raised in Missouri. After graduating from Missouri State University in 2002 with a BFA in Graphic Design, I moved to El Salvador and began working for a Salvadoran nonprofit organization called ENLACE.
The day-to-day living and working in El Salvador have shown me a life full of the tensions that come when wealth and poverty, violence and beauty, abundance and scarcity collide. I’ve had the opportunity to work in more than 20 impoverished rural communities as they, against seemingly insurmountable odds, determine to transform their communities.
Along with mining the realities of rural El Salvador, I have also worked with a variety of local, Salvadoran artists over the years: from impoverished children to recovering gang members to some of El Salvador's most respected artists. I've been able to reflect and explore a developing country facing violence, environmental awareness, commerce, human rights, migration, faith and social justice. And It is within this context that I have worked with mixed-media painting and printmaking as a voice of self-expression. I continue to explore the themes of wholeness, community and fragmentation while aiming to incorporate eco-friendly techniques.
I also gained access to a collective of leading Salvadoran artists called “La Fabri-K.” Our creative space is a renovated battery factory located in an impoverished community south of San Salvador. The goal of our collective is to create a communal art space while positively affecting our local community. In 2008 we were awarded the nation’s highest artistic award, the Premio Ingenio.
Previous Exhibitions/Publications include: World Trade Art Gallery in New York City, the United States and French Embassies in El Salvador, the Museo Nacional MUNA, Spanish Cultural Center in El Salvador, Departika and The Randy Bacon Studio in Missouri. Out of Eden: Pauline Books & Media, PRINT Magazine LVII:I March 02
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