Meet the Artist
My art is a visualization and exploration of my identity. My experience as a woman in the modern-day world, exploring the relations between myself and my cultural identity as a second-generation Mexican-Irish immigrant. Utilizing the processed based method of printmaking, I create images that represent my moments of grief, peace, growth, childhood joy, and femininity. At times, the multiples from print create the larger piece, experimenting with the viewer reaction to the scale of many prints, or experimenting with how a feeling changes the process from one monotype to the next.
One series of mine, ‘mudanza,’ or ‘moving’ (like moving houses) actively serves as a way to guide and serve my inner child. As someone who did not have the chance to embrace childhood—instead working and maturing as necessary to support my family—reflecting on the past self and allowing myself to play through art has been incredibly healing. This series uses stuffed animals as representations for different ‘selfs.’ Mimi, an old rabbit, was my childhood toy, representing my youngest self. Rene, a sewn strange-looking frog, was made and given to me by my step-mother, representing those awkward teenage years of discovery and identity formation. Bugcat, a blue six-legged cat, was bought for me by my partner after going out of his way to take me on a trip to see my favorite character at a comic con, representing young-adulthood. All of these objects are representative of love in different forms, unquestionable maternal love as a baby, chosen love through changing times, and adult love from romantic relationships. Through all these icons, I create portraits of these characters, scenes, and even physical items to further ideas of ‘play’ in art and life. I don’t know what will represent my future, but who does!
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2026
Ink 30: Loss, Dutzi Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Remarque Annual Print Exchange, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM
2025
Ink 29: Estamos en la Lucha, Dutzi Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Off The Hook!, Covet Art Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Intervals, MiraCosta College Art Gallery, CA
Intervals, MiraCosta College Art Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Culmination, MiraCosta College Art Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Abstract, Covet Art Gallery -Oceanside CA
Floral Galore, KBM Art Gallery - Hollywood, CA
TOYs & JOYs - 2025, Exhibizone, VirtualT
Teeny Tiny Art Mart, Oceanside Museum of Art - Oceanside, CA
2024
Art Night Encinitas, Off Track Gallery - Encinitas, CA
Grand Exchange, The Studio Door - San Diego, CA
Home, Kruglak Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Printmakers at Work, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Impressions, Kruglak Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Yuma Symposium Student Show, Yuma Center of the Arts - Yuma, AZ
Teeny Tiny Art Mart, Oceanside Museum of Art - Oceanside, CA
2023
Time’s Canvas: Past, Present, Future, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Visions Revealed, Kruglak Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Teeny Tiny Art Mart, Oceanside Museum of Art - Oceanside, CA
2022
The Portraits, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA
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2025
Tidepools 2025 - Tidepools Publishing, August 2025
2024
Ether Zine First Edition - Ether Zine, July 2024
Tidepools 2024 - Tidepools Publishing, August 20242023
Girls - Flurry Magazine, May 2023
Tidepools 2023 - Tidepools Publishing - May 2023 -
2025
Thank You Very Much, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Japanese Spring Festival 2025, MiraCosta College - Oceanside, CA
2024
Life of An Artist, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Sedimental Value, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA
Home, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA
Printmakers at Work - Blue Gate Gallery, Oceanside CA
STRUCK , Blue Gate Gallery- Oceanside, CA2023
Time’s Canvas: Past, Present, Future, Blue Gate Gallery - Oceanside, CA -
2025-Present
Printamaking BFA, California State University of Long Beach - Long Beach, California
2024
AA in Studio Arts for Transfer, MiraCosta College - Oceanside, CA
AA in Art History, MiraCosta College - Oceanside, CA
2023:
AA in Creative and Applied Arts, MiraCosta College - Oceanside, CA -
2025
Printmaking TI, MiraCosta College
2023-2025
President, Fine Art Club, MiraCosta College2023-2025
Curator, Blue Gate Gallery, MiraCosta College2023-2024
Art Director, MiraCosta Productions