b. 1983, Tucson, AZ

My practice at its core is an act of forgiveness, healing, and redemption. My work draws upon my ancestry, my personal experiences with discrimination and my hope for a reconciled past for an equitable future. This work straddles a fine line between multiple dreams, the false promise of assimilating into American culture, the loss of identity and the restoration of my Mexican heritage.

These paintings act as portals to the past, present and future while simultaneously reflecting the consequences of living within the margins of society today. They embody the disorientation of discrimination, the intersectionality of being queer and brown in America. My hope of this work is to symbolize a universality, a broader understanding that identity is fluid, everything and everyone is ever-changing and the rejection of colonial hierarchy based on skin color, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and heritage. It hopes to transcend specific place and time. It hopes for a universal truth. It speaks for equity.