I began showing my art in public at annual Day of the Dead festivals. This Mexican holiday encourages remembrance, and reminds us that dying is a part of living. For these celebrations I would create elaborate altars for the deceased, using art objects and paintings of my own creation.

If I had to name my style I would call it ìFolk art with a twistî. I work with many different themes and media. For my paintings I use acrylic, watercolor and designer gouache.

For sculptures and installations I use paper mache, acrylic medium, gold leaf and found objects. Most of my work is figurative. Re-occurring images that show up in my work are angels, demons, skeletons, divas and pre-hispanic characters. I think there is a lot of humor in my work, even tough some can be seen as macabre.

My work explores traditional notions vof what beauty is. I get inspired by things as diverse as comic books, folk toys, graffiti and tattoo imagery. I have concentrated my art education to independent study and experimentation. For me creating paintings, installations and art objects is a continuing process of expressing ideas, creating beauty (or horror) and expressing ideas from the personal to the political. Born in Mexico City, I currently live in San Francisco. My work has been exhibited in several museums in Northern California.

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