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Paintings

Dream of Infinite Green, (monarch butterfly) — 2022, 48 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Montage Health Ohana Center, Monterey, CA)

Here Comes the Sun, (Sierra Nevada red fox) — 2022, 72 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Montage Health Ohana Center, Monterey, CA)

Mission Blue Butterfly — 2022, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Firefly — 2022, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Stardust (Ohlone tiger beetle) — 2021, 60 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Electric Life Forever (tricolored blackbird) — 2021, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

The Sea, the Sky, the You and I (blue whale) — 2021, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Montage Health Ohana Center, Monterey, CA)

Greed (Panamanian golden frog) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (Private Collection, San Francisco)

Pride (African lion) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (Private Collection, San Francisco)

Gluttony (Visayan warty pig) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (price upon request)

Lust (Florida grasshopper sparrow) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (Private Collection, Oakland, CA)

Envy (giant garter snake) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (price upon request)

Wrath (European hornet) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (Private Collection, San Carlos, CA)

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna — 2018, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Sonoma, CA)

Sloth (pygmy three-toed sloth) — 2021, 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

The Awakening of Silence (polar bear) — 2020, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Every Murmur Becomes a Wave (gray wolf) — 2019, 46 x 56 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Pacific Grove, CA)

Earth-Shattering (monarch butterfly) — 2019, 72 x 84 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Heed the Mauve of Twilight (California tiger salamander) — 2019, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Pangolin — 2018, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Chimpanzee — 2018, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

An Exercise of Freedom (whooping crane) — 2006-2018, 56 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Moondance (Mexican gray wolf) — 2017, 48 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Arno Kolster)

Post-Nature (Honduran emerald hummingbird) — 2017, 48 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Mayday (tarsier) — 2017, 40 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA)

Into the Blue (whale shark) — 2017, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Pacific Grove, CA)

Kaleidoscope Eyes (green sea turtle) — 2017, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Trump's Bee (rusty patched bumble bee) — 2017, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

So Solve the Mystic Sun (ocelot) — 2017, 60 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Google, Mountain View, CA)

Innumeral Infinite Songs (California condor) — 2016, 60 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

She Will Hang the Night with Stars (northern spotted owl) — 2016, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Large Matters in Small Kingdoms (mountain lion) — 2016, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Woodside, CA)

Head Over Heels (black rhinoceros) — 2015, 48 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Ellie Mae, Pleasanton, CA)

Blue into Black (vaquita) — 2015, 48 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

African Elephant — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Blue-throated Macaw — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Western Lowland Gorilla — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Indiana Bat — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Ring-tailed Lemur — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Los Altos Hills, CA)

Amur Leopard — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Double Life (Panamanian golden frog) — 2015, 60 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Healdsburg, CA)

Crow — 2015, 46 x 72 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel)

Fly — 2015, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Dr. Fiona Wilson and Tor Archer)

Peregrine Falcon — 2015, 20 x 10 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Mika — 2015, 36 x 72 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Recology, San Francisco, CA)

Cats — 2015, 30 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Recology, San Francisco, CA)

Skunk — 2015, 30 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Raccoon — 2015, 36 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Ketchum, ID)

Red-Tailed Hawk — 2015, 30.5 x 46.25 inches, acrylic on digital print on canvas (price upon request)

Buckeye Butterfly — 2015, 24 x 18 inches, acrylic on wood (price upon request)

Rat — 2014, 20.74 x 16.5 inches, acrylic on wood (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Mouse — 2014, 28 x 22 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Seagull — 2014, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Recology, San Francisco, CA)

Afternoon Delight (African penguin) — 2014, 46 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Not Fade Away (polar bear) — 2014, 46 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Alight (monarch butterfly) — 2014, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Elizabeth and Byron Ryono)

Anthropocene Shuffle — 2014, 46 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Joy Spring — 2014, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Everything Takes Time (bee) — 2013, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Bondi — 2013, 60 x 60 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Tiburon, CA)

Mex-Italy Rose — 2012, 56 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Who Watches the Watchers? — 2011, 46 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Cloud Nine — 2011, 60 x 80 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Atherton, CA)

Constellation — 2011, 56 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Voluptuous Deconstruction — 2010, 48 x 60 inches, acrylic and digital print on canvas (Collection of UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA)

Cannonball — 2010, 18 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Safari — 2010, 18 x 18 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Split — 2009, 46 x 56 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Arno Kolster)

Vortex — 2009, 56 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Rejection #9 (Barack Obama) — 2009, 6 x 6 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, San Francisco, CA)

Rejection #7 (John McCain) — 2009, 6 x 6 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Rejection #4 (Sarah Palin) — 2009, 6 x 6 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Saddle River, NJ)

The Thrill of Fear — 2007, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Santa Rosa, CA)

Carnivoracity — 2006, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Dallas, TX)

Deployment in Wonderland — 2007, 60 x 80 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA)

The Babylon Lottery — 2007, 56 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Predator/Prey — 2006, 40 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Portola Valley, CA)

Fight or Flight — 2006, 60 x 80 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, London, England)

Pattern is the Mother of Memory — 2005, 60 x 80 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Zigzag — 2005, 40 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Counterpassant — 2005, 40 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — 2004, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on wood (price upon request)

Paintings — 2004, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on wood (price upon request)

On Pure Sudden Days Like Innocence — 2004, 51 x 121 inches (triptych), acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Palo Alto, CA)

Almost Paradise — 2003, 51 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

The Wild Birds of Heaven — 2003, 26 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Wakefield, MA)

Perfect California Day — 2003, 26 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Blue Streak — 2003, 51 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Menlo Park, CA)

Lush Life — 2002, 51 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Taos, NM)

The Buddy System — 2002, 51 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Back on Top — 2002, 51 x 39 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Friendly Fire — 2001, 60 x 94 inches (diptych). acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

The Revelation of the Being of What Is — 2001, 51 x 80 inches (diptych), acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

L'Eclair — 2000, 39 x 51 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Les Nuages — 2000, 39 x 51 inches, acrylic on canvas (Private Collection, Pacific Grove, CA)

La Lumiere — 1999, 39 x 51 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Un Jeu — 1999, 39 x 51 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Orange/Yellow/Green — 1999, 68 x 68 inches, acrylic on canvas (Collection of Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA)

Boom — 1999, 68 x 68 inches, acrylic on canvas (price upon request)

Red/Green — 1998, 72 x 84 inches, oil on canvas (Private Collection, Berkeley, CA)

Blue/Orange — 1998, 72 x 84 inches, oil on canvas (Private Collection, Boca Raton, FL)