Portfolio > Paintings 2020-2024

In the last two years I have been channeling Pre Raphaelite ideals to discuss notions of portraiture, body politics, and colonial socio -cultural identity. The paintings in the series are based on paintings I grew up seeing in the collection of El Museo de Ponce in Puerto Rico.

Garden. Story Arch. (After Elizabeth Siddal and Jules Bastien)
Acrylic on curtain mesh material. And sculpted acrylic paint components.
112” x 57” (component 8”x 8”’x 5”)
2023
Bookmark
Acrylic and Prismacolor pencils on canvas
40” x 40”
Demesne
Acrylic and sculpted acrylic paint on curtain material mesh
100” x 57”
2023
Homage to Friends (after John Everett Millais)
Acrylic on curtain material mesh
48" x 70"
2022
Heliconia and Talisker Still Life (2020)
acrylic on curtain material mesh
48 x 60
Death of Bara
Acrylic on canvas
6' x 8'
2024
Portrait After the Diner Party
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 60
2022
2022
Calumny (after Marie Spartali Stillman)
acrylic on canvas
48" x 48"
2022
Always Strive for a Graceful Fall
Acrylic on purposely wrinkled irregular paper
70 x 48
2022
Deal with the Devil
Acrylic on curtain material mesh
48" x 70"
2022
Mourning
acrylic on curtain material mesh
48" x 70"
2022
Leaf Mask
Ink sublimation on acrylic, and acrylic paint on padouk wood remnant from Hugo hurricane
2021
The Letter
Acrylic on canvas
48" x 36"
2022