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American Avenue, 2025 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 32 x 48" American Avenue is the road that leads to Del Rey in the great San Joaquin Valley flanked by almond and orange groves where my grandfather worked for decades.

Del Rey Tumbleweeds, 2025 acrylic on muslin 32 x 40" Driving to visit my grandparents in the San Joaquin Valley in the winter, the orchard and vineyard roads were lined with tumbleweeds.

Del Rey Grapevines, 2025 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 32 x 48" Part of my San Joaquin farm series honoring Latino farmworkers. My Mexican grandparents worked nearby for most of their lives. My grandmother tied 2000 grapevines each summer.These are grapes for raisins not wine. As I recall there was a Sun Maid packing factory behind their house in Del Rey.

Tomales Point, 2025 oil and acrylic on canvas 43 x 54" From my photograph, featuring the coastal native cobweb thistle on a 12 mile walk I took on a clear spring day, through shoulder high yellow lupine. In Point Reyes National Seashore, near the historic dairy and beef farms that have been shut down and paid off to save the tule elk, promote native plants, prevent toxic runoff into the ocean - displacing family ranchers and their mostly Latino workers.

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.

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

Fort Bliss, 2025 oil, acrylic and pastel on canvas 20 x 24" Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX is now home to the largest immigration detention center in the country holding up to 5000 people. Photo references from Google Earth and the El Paso Times. Also a former Japanese internment camp.

NC Farmworkers 3, 2025 acrylic on canvas 48 x 48" Series honoring Latino farmworkers, based on my photos of farms in Wilson, North Carolina. The color palettes in this series are Mexican, and the labor force is thus implied, while notably absent.

NC Farmworkers 2/Portapotty 2025 acrylic on canvas 48 x 50" Series honoring Latino farmworkers, based on my photos of farms in Wilson, North Carolina. The color palettes in this series are Mexican, and the labor force is thus implied, while notably absent.

NC Farmworkers 1, 2025 acrylic on canvas 36 x 48" Series honoring Latino farmworkers, based on my photos of farms in Wilson, North Carolina. The color palettes in this series are Mexican, and the labor force is thus implied, while notably absent.

Prickly Pear and Yucca, 2025 oil, pastel, and acrylic on canvas 36 x 48" Varieties of these two plants are native to both North Carolina and Mexico, created especially for my show at the Durham Convention Center, "From Mexico to North Carolina."