CONTACT
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The purpose of art, as I see it, is to invoke, cajole, or shock viewers into altered states of understanding. My pictures are a blend of social realism and my wandering imagination which traffics in exaggeration, sensationalism, and absurdity. Growing up I was immersed in comics, sci-fi, and gangster films. Revolutionaries were not on Earth, but found “long ago in a galaxy far, far away”. I naturally gravitated towards rebels from other planets, because the ones I learned about in school were criminalized or assassinated. As an adult, my interest in rebellions, organizers, aid workers, pacifists, and activists around the world replaced my interest in comics narratives, but my interest in the creation of radical imaginaries remains.
My experimental documentaries present dynamic moving images through an idiosyncratic lens. Part verité and part sensorial, my films adopt a fly-on-the-wall approach, capturing candid moments of the subjects and their surrounding environments. Subjects have included distinct manual labor of working class women of Uruguay, survivalists, and mutual aid workers on Skid Row.
My talents have been channeled towards storyboards, concept art, comics, editing, cinematography, VFX, or other collaborative work. I am still for hire on freelance, however I prefer to pursue my own creative interests.
CV
EXHIBITIONS - PERFORMANCES - SCREENINGS
August 2024 Group Show, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
2023 Empathic Flavors, Screening, Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles
Last Group Show, Bread and Salt, San Diego
Vantage Point, Group Show, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, Ca
Mural, 3B Collective, Hilda Solis Care First Center, Los Angeles.
2022 SD Faculty Exhibition, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Manos. TameCine Film Festival. Tamésis, Antioquia, Colombia.
William D. Cannon Gallery. Carlsbad, Ca.
Unlocked Art Faculty Exhibit. Kruglak Gallery. Oceanside, Ca
2021 3B Collective: Highways and Byways, Residency Art, Inglewood, Ca
2020 Glimpses of Life, Online Video Exhibition, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, Ca
Manos and Roadside Cosmos, Screening, Floodplain Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Manos and Lacustre, Screening, Echo Park Film Center, La, Ca
2019 Defect Traces, Solo Show, 3235 1/2 Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca
Manos, Screening and Q&A, Cine Tonalá, Tijuana, Mexico
Manos, Thesis Film Exhibition, UCSD
Judas Unicorn: Artifacts, VAF Performance Space, UCSD
Eccentricity Has Room, Artists from UCSD MFA, MCASD, San Diego
2018 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Juried Exhibition
We Stole The Fire, Group Show, Melrose, Los Angeles, Ca
LAVA, Group Show, UCSD
2017 “Tragic Fantasy”, MFA Exhibition, UCSD
2016 “To Be or Not Be: Aesthetics in the Age of Extinction(s)”, MFA Exhibition,
“Not Free, Not Dead: The Psychedelic End”, State of the Art. Berlin, Germany
2013 Jelly Souls/Mindglow, ThinkTank Gallery, (Los Angeles, CA) - Screening
2012 MInglow Premiere, Roxy Theatre, (San Francisco) - Screening
2009 Nuclear Squirrel Tour, Conflux City, (New York, NY) - Performance
2008 Automutilation Exhibition, 1.0, Solo Exhibition, Bay Area 51 Art Space, SF
Inception, SCA Contemporary, (Albuquerque, NM) - Exhibition
Art Olympics, Bay Art 51 Art Space (San Francisco, CA) - Performance
Automutilation Exhibition 2.0, Solo Exhibition Fort Gallery, Oakland, CA
AWARDS-GRANTS-RESIDENCIES
2022 40K$ KFC Giving Award
2018 Resident Artist at PAM Theatre Workshop. Judas Unicorn. Los Angeles, Ca.
2017 25k$ CRES Award Recipient, Manos, UCSD
2017 2.5K$ Russell Grant Recipient, “Payphone”, UCSD
2017 Best Editing and Special Effects, October Eighth. Art Power. UCSD
2009 Selected Project, “Nuclear Squirrel Tour”, Conflux City NYC,
2013 Official Selection, “Jelly Souls”, Montclair Film Festival, Montclair, NJ
2004 Academic Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED ARTIST LECTURES
2022 TameCine Film Festival. Tamésis, Antioquia, Colombia.
2019 Photography as Social Practice, Professor Brian Cross, UCSD
2019 Guest Lecturer: Artist Talk, Studio Art: Drawing, Professor. Ruben Ortiz, UCSD
2019 Judas Unicorn Performance Lecture 2.0, UCSD
2018 Judas Unicorn Performance Lecture 1.0, Artist Talk, PAM, Los Angeles, Ca
2017 Art Department of Wendy Lecture, UCSD, Ca
2014 Special Effects of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Borsht Corp, Miami
FILM /THEATRE
2023 Empathic Flavors, Documentary, Director.
2020 Something Other Than Its Own Mass, Documentary. Editor.
Roadside Cosmos: A Film About Uranium Club. Director
2019 Judas Unicorn Performance Lecture, UCSD
2018 Manos, Documentary. Director
Judas Unicorn. @ PAM performance space, LA CA
Judas Unicorn: The Staged Reading, Writer/Director, UCSD
2017 Wendy. Feature. Storyboard Artist.
Tragic Fantasy. Director.
2016 Where No Man. iFeature. Storyboard Artist.
October Eighth. Short. Director.
2015 Swiss Army Man. Feature. Art Department.
2014 Snitches. Short. Director.
Cabal. Short. Production Designer.
Dwarves of Demrel, Production Designer.
2013-2016 Grosh Custom
2013 Mediterranea. Feature. Lead Construction.
2012 Jelly Souls. Short. Director
2010 Mindglow. Short. Director.
2011 Beasts of the Southern Wild. Feature. Lead Artist.
2008 Next Level H.I.M.. Short. Assistant Director.
EDUCATION
2019 MFA Vis Arts, UCSD.
2003 Otis College of Art and Design, (Los Angeles, CA)
TEACHING
MiraCosta College 2021- Present
UCSD 2020-2021.
ARTICLES/PRINT
Aliendigena, Guillermo Estrada, 2021
Eccentricity Has Room, MCASD Exhibition book. 2019
Cinefex. Pourroy, Janine. “Making of Beasts of the Southern Wild”, January 2013
Art Practical. McCrystal, Carol-Anne, “The Slacker, the Protestor, Cosmic Gestation, and Me”, December 7, 2011
Alibi, Leigh, David, “Markings”, Inception at SCA Contemporary, 2009
