A very timely article written by local reporter Mike Kinney for the Richmond Standard is making the rounds on social media. He came to my studio and took photos of paintings in progress, all of them of diaspora Puerto Ricans. These paintings will be shown at the EBMUD Administrative Building’s gallery in Oakland. The reception is on Thursday, September …

I wanted to tell you a little bit about how I get ready for a show like this, which covers the areas of promotion, sales, generation of supporting materials and day of show preparation. Before the paintings could be framed they had to go to the photographer, Tony Molatore of Berkeley Gicleé, who uses a large format camera to …

It has been busy after Tessa Paoli interviewed me and Meiying Wu took the photos for this Richmond Confidential article. They came by my studio at the right time, because I had had a batch of paintings return from the photographer. The journalists met me when they worked on an article for last fall’s Califas show, and had followed …