I believe art should build an awareness within us and create, as much as possible, a collective disposition towards improving ourselves as individuals and, by extension, the world.

In my art, I revive and reconcile traditional figurative painting with pop culture in order to produce a work that shows contemporary obsession with the media. I use different brushstrokes and techniques, showing intimate portraits with or without lettering. My work is based on photographs mainly from tabloid, fashion magazines and personal photographs in order to reproduce a work of art defining the celebrity or wannabe's.

For example, in my painting of Anna’s Final Plea to Britney, one of Ana Nicole's last picture before her death, Anna and her baby were painted in layers of light browns with light pinks and yellows while using large watercolor brushes in order to layer the background. I painted her hair in the lightest pale yellow to show her bleached-out hair against her amazon tan large body, while holding her tiny delicate baby. In this painting, the pale pink color intensifies the expressive maternal pose presenting her baby, looking hopeless while in a state of limbo. The original source came from an Us Weekly magazine two weeks before her death. The red lettering was added after the painting was made, in dripping strokes, emulating her feelings for Britney from her personal diary.

In all my works, I try to offer a new provocative and seductive approach to traditional portraiture. My paintings demand time in execution and viewing them are just as critical in relationship to our mass media images dominated by technology.

I believe that my art is like a celebrity opening itself to criticism, exposed to the world through images that are significant because they are viewed more importantly, as the person behind the work. My main concern in my artwork is the attainment to achieve a cherished portrayal of a truthful, untainted, vision of reality devoid of any distortion by our mainstream media outlets and our ruling corporatist elites....