About
When I think about myself as an artist I have a fantasy that I'm at a large etching press and I'm pulling up a print and there is a large field of a beautiful blue, deep but full of light. While I can see that mentally, I weirdly never paint with that color and I don't really know why — it probably has something to do with the fact that when I paint I tend to muddy up the colors so much that anything resembling that fantasy blue would be gone, which is something I need to work on. A lot of the ideas for the elements of my paintings come from both nature and music — the patterns and the spaces. One thought involves the physical aspects that painting and making art share with playing an instrument: one is continuous and the other just dries… it's almost like you have to keep painting so that things will stop.
Nowadays when I'm painting, things don't start to happen until there is some kind of rhythm, or a broad application, and then the piece becomes almost about the manipulation of the combinations that happen. That really isn't about any art idea but rather the experience at that time, and the colors are so moody it's almost like the painting is changing me instead of the other way around — which is really a lot of fun.
The way I've been using the materials, especially when painting on paper, there's a phenomenon that happens that I call a gimmick. It's like a glitch, usually with a texture and a color, something odd and uneven — and if a gimmick appears, I usually stop. The idea of a gimmick makes me laugh, because painting is one of those things that is supposed to be beyond that.
— Cuenca, Ecuador, 2026
CV
Born Los Angeles, California, USA, 1960
Education 1987 — BS Immunology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1994 — MD, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico 2000–2001 — Pediatric residency, Brookdale Hospital, Brooklyn, NY & St. Vincent's Hospital, Staten Island, NY 2001–2005 — Child Neurology residency & Neurodevelopmental Disabilities fellowship, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2008–2012 — "Art Crawl," Mother Dog Studios, Houston, TX 2012 — "Recortes," Mother Dog Studios, Houston, TX 2005 — "The Wrong Angle," Mother Dog Studios, Houston, TX 1993 — "Women in Children's Clothes," Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 1992 — "Manic Play Document," Librería La Luz, Morelia, Mexico 1992 — "The Art and Poetry of Randy Klienfelter," 830 Gallery, Tucson, AZ 1990 — "The Many Facets of Denise," Go Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1987 — "Paintings and Other Graphic Descriptions of Problems," Newspeak, Tucson, AZ
Selected Group Exhibitions 2006 — "Dead of Winter," Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, NY 2003 — "Faculty Exhibition," Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 2003 — "Drawing Continual," Art League of Houston, TX 1997 — "Small Works," SB Community College, Santa Barbara, CA 1994 — "Soiled Solutions," Betty Ford Pavilion, Tucson, AZ 1992 — "Artist Book Series #50," UCLA Art Library, Los Angeles, CA