Immigration

West 40 of 160 Immigration Detention Center Landscapes, 2026 watercolor, watercolor pencil and chalk pastel on paper 36 x 52" total wall installation

Hendersonville Hold, 2026 acrylic and pastel on canvas 15 x 20" North Carolina currently has three holding rooms where people are processed and then often transferred without a trace away from their lawyers and families. Based on historical satellite imagery of the land before the detention centers were built.

Cary Hold, 2026 acrylic and pastel on canvas 15 x 20" North Carolina currently has three holding rooms where people are processed and then often transferred without a trace away from their lawyers and families. Based on historical satellite imagery of the land before the detention centers were built.

Charlotte Hold, 2026 acrylic and pastel on canvas 15 x 20" North Carolina currently has three holding rooms where people are processed and then often transferred without a trace away from their lawyers and families. Based on historical satellite imagery of the land before the detention centers were built.

Volcano, 2026 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 48 x 64" diptych San Vicente volcano in El Salvador is the site of the notorious CECOT detention center where we have deported hundreds of young men. Erased the prison and inverted the colors of the sky and land since we are living in the upside down world.

Alligator Alcatraz, 2025 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 34 x 48" Google earth plant reference near this immigration detention center in the Everglades. "Thirty-two bodies crammed per cage, six cages per tent. People screaming 'Help me, I'm a U.S. citizen.' Drinking water pumped from the same toilet they're forced to use. It's filth, it's cruelty, it's America's name on the door." - Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost

Angel Island, 2025 oil, acrylic, pastel on canvas 36 x 48" View from my studio window, painted without the former immigration center, now a museum. "While the exact number is unknown, estimates suggest that between 1910 and 1940, the station processed up to one million Asian and other immigrants, including 250,000 Chinese and 150,000 Japanese ...Thousands of immigrants detained on Angel Island endured the station's prison-like environment." - NPS website. Also served as a Japanese internment camp during WWII. Painted with the color palette of the American flag, striped water, and stars layered under the fog.

Fort Bliss, 2025 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 20 x 24"