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On Repeat: The Musicians Who Shaped Us Exhibition
January 30 – March 1, 2027
Mexic-Arte Museum

I was introduced to Stevie Ray Vaughan through his brilliant guitar solos on David Bowie’s “China Girl” and “Let’s Dance” back in the spring 1983. Stevie’s debut album, Texas Flood, was released later that summer and I was reintroduced to him through “Pride and Joy,” “Love Struck Baby,” and a cover of Buddy Guy’s “Mary had a Little Lamb.”  I wish I could say that I recognized that brilliant guitar work from the Bowie album, that realization came much later. When I moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas in the fall of 1985, I heard more about Stevie Ray Vaughan through a friend’s sister who was a fanatic. I regret not seeing him at Antone’s on the Drag in those early days. We always think there will be plenty of time to catch an artist.  Five years later Steve left us. His legend lives on through the airwaves, on broadcasts of Austin City Limits (Voodoo Child slight return), and on the shores of Lady Bird Lake.

Duty, Honor, Country
8” x 10” Mixed Media Collage

Rat-a-Tat-Tat. Those words resounded through the neighborhood on Saturday mornings when the neighborhood boys played war games, inspired by the WWII movies we watched, TV shows like The Rat Patrol, and the comics we read like G.I. Combat. No wonder the comic inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein resonated with me so many years later. “Duty, Honor, and Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, and what you will be” were spoken by General Douglas A. MacArthur at West Point in 1962. Those hallowed words did not inspire me to join the military, but came to mind as I served my country in AmeriCorps (2020-2022).

This piece was submitted for inclusion in a traveling exhibition honoring veteran’s assembled by Imagine Art, where I served as an AmeriCorps member and currently assist with the implementation of the AmeriCorps program.

Lake Meridian State Park & Blanco State Park

Hope for Spring: Texas Water
March 20 - April 28, 2024

Neill-Cochran House Museum

I selected two images featuring water from my 2023 Austin Studio Tour exhibition on State Parks for the annual Hope for Spring exhibition at the Neill-Cochran House Museum.

Both images were long exposures to get a gentle blur in the surface of Lake Meridian at sundown and to slow the flow over the dam of the Blanco River.

Austin, circa 1999

Mix 'n' Mash: Celebrating Austin
February 2, 2024 – March 8, 2024
Mexic-Arte Museum

Daniel Johnston's Jeremiah the Innocent (aka The Hi How Are You? Frog) has been a fixture on the wall at the corner of Guadalupe and 21st Street. It's still there as of now (January 2026), the lone wall standing in the midst of urban renewal across the forty acres. I took this photograph of Jeremiah the Innocent back in 1999 using a film camera (my trusty Canon T70 SLR), and decided to scan and then enlarge the contact sheet.