A complex grid of the love, companionship and sometimes confinement and loneliness that is experienced in marriage.

A response to the police brutality that has been placed in the forefront of media (2020). This painting illustrates a couple holding each other and their child. It is meant to draw attention to the fact that mother's of black children can never reach far enough to protect their families. It is a call to action for all mothers to teach their young children about the horrors of systemic racism because no single woman's reach is great enough to protect her child against the world.

The lively and colored life within the dwellings of Santorini- those opposite the pristine sea views and picturesque blue and white views.

Frozen over winter on the Bay. Virginia Beach, VA

Longing, (Oil on Canvas, 24X36") Body and space reflect the internal experience of subject.

Pomegranate Still Life. One of the emblems of Armenian culture. The imposing angle and shine of a knife along with bold color leaking from the fruit meant to parallels between the ongoing sorrow and pain of displaced refugees.

Nude. She is cold and reserved. The figure turns away and wants to escape from focus.

She is smooth and inviting, but her dreams are filled with dynamic motion. Can she hold on?

To dive in and and fade. Her back is a protective shield holding in a downpour of pain.

Second painting of series exposes the internal the the raw external body. Angular and misshapen; there is no longer anything to hide under.

Which is the true reflection? Which part of the self dictates the rules of who we are and how we are perceived?

Taken from a live drawing of Pompidou, the painting displays the museum on a grayed Parisian filled with the bustle and noise of the early morning work day. We are removed as voyeurs.

Showcasing the power our dreams and sleep have on our psyches and physical self.

A young girl being washed away by all that surrounds her with only a blanket to evoke a sense of mass underneath it. Her face her hair and soon the body with be unrecognizeable.

Children playing in the sand along the water on a gray day in Petergof near St. Petersburg, Russia. A palace is everyones playground in Russia.

The portrayal of the exterior alludes to the years of story behind the walls of this old building in Germany.

15 min. life drawing of reclining nude.

Still Life with teapot. A portrayal of a Russian kitchen table in the midday over which all politics and life matters would be discussed, but always with a side of fruit.

Guernica re-thought in the scape of Americans starting war with Iraq. 2009

Still Life.

Still Life.

Windy and wild; San Francisco Beaches.

San Francisco wild beaches.

Still Life. Flowers appear through the darkness. Painted in honor of my grandmother, Lilya, who had passed in 1999.

Brainstorm sketches on capitalism and man.

Brainstorm sketches about connection of the physical body to our emotional experience.

Brainstorm sketches about connection of the physical body to our emotional experience.

Brainstorm sketches about connection of the physical body to our emotional experience.