Painting for the City of Santa Clarita

This is the completed painting for the City of Santa Clarita. The City asked me to create a work of art incorporating "found" objects from its Santa Clara River, objects I gathered during its annual River Rally this past September.

It is: Under The Bridge, 24" x 48", acrylic, oil, and found objects on panel, 2011. The painting, to me, radiates mostly positive and optimistic feelings, but at the same time carries a deeper network of emotions - a castaway teddy bear with his rucksack, an empty bottle of vodka, and fluttering butterflies over chaotic movement of paint - hard times under the bridge and old souls - yet piecing together simple things we find a melody, harmony, and rhythm to life.

The work will be exhibited throughout the month of January, 2012, at the Big Stories Gallery at Westfield Valencia Town Center, 24201 West Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, California 91350. The opening reception is on January 11th at 7:00 p.m.

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Green Roast Exhibit and Other Updates

Thank you to all who made it out on Saturday to Green Roast in Redondo Beach for the solo exhibition of many of my paintings. Your support is so very much appreciated :) If you were unable to attend, the art will remain up for the rest of November; please stop in if you're in the area.

Also, I hope the raffle and giveaway of the three mini-paintings was enjoyable! (And no, it wasn't rigged, lol.) Congrats to Elise, Mike, and Melissa.


Please keep in mind that in January my work commissioned by the City of Santa Clarita will be exhibited at the Big Stories Gallery at Westfield Valencia Town Center, 24201 West Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, California 91350. More details on this to come...

Also, in February, my solo exhibition of nature-inspired abstract paintings will be exhibited at the El Dorado Nature Museum in Long Beach, California. More details on this to come as well...

And if you're planning to be around Torrance on November 20th, join me at 6:30 p.m. at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center for a silent art auction, featuring one of my small 6"x8" paintings, to benefit the 24 Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to various forms of art to people in need of healing. The theme at this event is "child like heart" and there will be live music by singer/songwriter, John Torres!

Thank you for following the paintings, creations, sculpture, drawings, works in progress, Doodle of the Day, and other art by Los Angeles artist Lucas Aardvark :) To see older blog posts click HERE.