Walks with Bebs
February 2026
Oil on Canvas, Diptych 12×16″
Walks with Bebs began during a winter evening walk with my dog, Beba, in Queens.
I stopped beneath a bare tree against the night sky, watching the shadow it cast across a nearby fence. For a moment, the ordinary world shifted, and I felt pulled somewhere else.
These are the moments that open what I call the backstage, a place where perception slows and another layer of the world quietly appears.
This painting was made from that inner place.
A longer reflection on this moment and the ideas behind the work can be found in a recent essay. You can read more here.
Sledding in Central Park
February 2026
Oil on Canvas, 12×16″
Painted in the aftermath of the January 25, 2026 snowstorm in New York, Sledding in Central Park captures a rare collective pause, a moment when the city slowed and play took over.
Drawn from lived experience, the scene follows the walk toward Central Park, sled in hand, among hundreds of others moved by the same impulse.
This work continues an ongoing exploration of execution: honoring an idea at the moment it arrives and carrying it through before it fades.
The snowstorm that inspired the painting is reflected upon in a recent essay. You can read more here.
Don't Run
January 2026
Strathmore 400 Series paper, 18×24″
Don’t Run emerges from a recurring lucid dream in which fear and stillness collide. Set within a dark forest, the painting captures the moment pursuit loses its power, when fear dissolves not through escape, but through recognition and stillness.
Part of the Dream Series, this work explores psychological landscapes shaped by instinct, memory, and subconscious awareness, spaces where danger lingers until it is finally faced.
The dream behind this piece unfolds in a forest where I am running in place, chased by a faceless figure who feeds on fear. When lucidity arrives, I stop. I sit. I wait. What once hunted me loses its power.
A longer reflection on the dream can be read here.
Let's Keep Dancing
October 2025
Oil on Canvas, 36×48″
Let’s Keep Dancing is inspired by a Greek panigíri, a village celebration where music, food, and community merge into shared rhythm. These gatherings have always felt sacred to me: spaces where joy and tradition coexist with an awareness of impermanence.
The painting holds that duality, celebration alongside the quiet ache of time passing. Its title comes from Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? - a song that transforms existential doubt into defiance. Choosing to dance despite life’s uncertainties became the emotional core of the work.
Painted during a period of solitude and transition, the figures emerged as a collective portrait of connection: people I love, people I’ve lost, and the spaces between them. The circular movement of the dancers became a metaphor for life’s ongoing cycle of holding on and letting go.
At its heart, Let’s Keep Dancing is an invitation, to remain open, to move through grief and celebration alike, and to choose presence over paralysis. If there is a message here, it is simple: come dance.
A deeper reflection on this work can be found here.
The JuicegirlRN Logo
June 2025
Arches Oil Paper, 12×18″
This hand-painted logo was commissioned for JuicegirlRN, a juice brand centered on raw ingredients and minimal processing. Rather than a digitally rendered mark, the client requested a painted identity, establishing a direct relationship between the product and its visual language.
The green apple motif references the brand’s flavor profile, while layered paint and tonal variation introduce movement without sacrificing clarity. The result bridges traditional painting with contemporary branding, allowing the medium itself to echo the rawness of the product.
Within & Without
January 2025
Oil on Canvas, Diptych 12×24″
Within & Without takes its title from a line in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Painted after a night on a rooftop in Manhattan, the work captures a suspended moment, present within the movement of the city yet quietly removed from it. What began as lived experience became a meditation on observation: the tension of participating while remaining apart.
The painting reflects an ongoing preoccupation in my practice , witnessing. Standing inside the rhythm of life while holding enough distance to see it clearly.
At its core, Within & Without considers modern isolation, curiosity, and the stillness that can exist inside relentless motion.
The Grand Canal
April 2022
Oil on Canvas, 12×36″
This work began as an exploration of panoramic scale, capturing the movement of water, architecture, and light.
Inspired by Venice, Italy, it became both a technical study of space and a meditation on fragility, an attempt to hold in paint what feels increasingly impermanent.
The Aged Day
December 2018
Oil on Canvas, 24×30″
Originally commissioned and completed in December 2018, this painting took on new meaning after my grandfather passed away while I was working on it. Finishing it became part of my grieving process.
In the weeks that followed, I painted daily, immersing myself in the warmth and shadow of this imagined scene in Santorini, Greece. Though I had not yet visited the island, the work became a quiet homage to my heritage.
The collector generously allowed me to keep the piece, and it remains one of the most personal works in my practice. It also marked the beginning of my fascination with painting at night, when color does not soften, but intensifies.