PROJECT: A MEASURE OF WONDER

A Measure of Wonder is an ongoing interdisciplinary project exploring attention, time, presence, and our relationship to the natural world. Growing from my Calm and Chaos landscape series, the project considers how sustained observation can transform the ordinary into something complex, surprising, and deeply meaningful.

PROJECT & SHOW: A HUMBLE GIFT 

A Humble Gift is an interdisciplinary project and exhibition exploring memory, family tradition, values, and connection. Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, and sound, the body of work draws on the symbolic act of giving oranges to consider how small gestures, objects, landscape, and shared rituals carry meaning across generations.

SHOW: RESIDENCY REVERIES

Residency Reveries was a group exhibition at Love Texas Art in 2023 featuring work by artists-in-residence Ariel Davis, Bernardo Vallarino, Kyle Hanson, and Marielle Guzman, created over the course of a year-long studio residency. Bringing together four distinct practices, the exhibition reflected the experimentation and development that emerged during the residency. Davis' contribution included photography, interactive elements, sculpture, and painting including Ladies Night Swimming Convo and the large-scale painting We’re Done Playing, an important work in the development of her figurative practice.

COMMISSION & PUBLIC ART: "LOOKING UP: A VIEW TO THE LONE STAR SKY " 

Looking Up: A View to the Lone Star Sky is a site-specific ceiling mural created for Trinity Metro and commissioned by Downtown Fort Worth, Inc., completed in 2024. Located in the tunnel at the Texas & Pacific train station in downtown Fort Worth, the work transforms the passageway with an expansive skyscape inspired by the Texas sky. Featuring a star-shaped cloud, the mural brings a sense of place, openness, movement, and wonder into an everyday transit space.

COMMISSION: "STOCK SHOW DAY DREAMING" 

Stock Show Day Dreaming was a temporary street mural commissioned by Visit Fort Worth for the 2022 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Spanning approximately 600 feet, the work transformed the roadway into a colorful, large-scale celebration of Fort Worth’s western heritage, combining playful imagery of clouds and with the energy, tradition, and spectacle of the annual Stock Show.

SERIES: CALM & CHAOS

Calm and Chaos is an ongoing series of paintings inspired by the landscape surrounding Matagorda, Texas. Moving between expansive views and intimate details, the work reflects on the simultaneous stillness and movement of the natural world and the beauty revealed through sustained observation.

SERIES: CERULEAN DREAMS 

Cerulean Dreams is a 2023 series of monochromatic paintings honoring inspirational women from previous generations. Painted with loose, immediate brushwork in shades of blue, the portraits move away from strict realism toward a more emotional and intuitive response to each subject. The series reflects on legacy, influence, memory, and the enduring presence of women who continue to shape those who follow.

SERIES: WOMEN SOLO

Women Solo is an ongoing series of figurative paintings begun in 2017, centered on women depicted alone in moments of reflection, rest, transition, and everyday life. Through intimate compositions and expressive color, the series explores contemporary womanhood, interiority, independence, and the complex emotional space between solitude and connection.

COMMISSIONS: GLOBE LIFE FIELD

Created for Globe Life Field in 2020, these two large-scale oil paintings explore different aspects of Texas identity and the experience of the ballpark. One captures the collective energy and shared experience of attending a baseball game, while the other draws inspiration from the history of cowboys and Texas Rangers as riders returning home from the vast Texas landscape and wilderness. Each original painting measures approximately 5 x 24 feet and one was reproduced at an even larger scale within the stadium for a vinyl mural.

PUBLIC ART: "FRIENDS IN FORT WORTH T-SHIRTS"

Friends In Fort Worth T-Shirts is a public artwork created for the TEXRail platform at the Texas & Pacific Station in downtown Fort Worth, in collaboration with Fort Worth Public Art. Developed through a community-engaged process, the project features images of local participants wearing T-shirts that reflect personal connections, identities, and experiences tied to Fort Worth. Installed as six large translucent panels, the work transforms everyday portraits into a collective portrait of the city and the people who make it their home.