My work explores race and family issues that are ultimately about society’s role in advancing human dignity. I am interested in underscoring the connections that merge differences. I investigate the similarities and contrasts between various social and cultural groups to critique the traditional idea of race, arguing that it is an essentialist doctrine. Race and identity are hybrid social constructions, and through my practice I explore how social patterns cross ethnic and cultural boundaries.

My investigation also engages language and social patterns that we find buried in language itself and how they perpetuate racial stereotypes. I am interested in creating art that not only functions within the context of a gallery or a museum, but that involves society and functions in a public space; I believe this to be essential to an artist working with social issues. I am also interested in mining cultural signifiers that produce familiar narratives instead of being characterized by a particular formal style. That being said, my work might alternate between paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations.