Oil on canvas
2021
14” x 18”
Image description: Painting of the corner of 10th Avenue and Burnside in downtown Portland, with Powell’s Books at left. The sky is overcast, and the pavement is wet with recent rain. Green traffic lights overhead reflect on the wet pavement.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on wood panel
2022
24” x 18”
Image description: Painting of a city street fenced off by a chain-link fence, where a glassy new building is being erected at right, and at center an older building’s brick side wall bears a black-and-white mural of a female figure. The mural is covered from the figure’s waist down by a large red tarp.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2024
24x18"
Image description: Painting of the corner of SE 34th Ave and Belmont St in Portland, on a sunny day just after rain. The yellow Belmont Market building is featured, with a sign by Wokeface. Two people are walking down the sidewalk.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2024
24" x 18"
Image description: Painting of a yellow two-story building lit with bright sunlight against a cloudy sky, and casting reflections on the wet street. The building features a square blue mural reading "Leroy Sly Scott, 1956–2020," circled around a pink heart.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2024
24” x 18”
Image description: Painting of a neighborhood street, featuring three colorful houses and a red-and-white parked vehicle. The street is on a slight incline. The houses are, from left to right, blue, yellow with green trim, and pink with blue trim. The surrounding terrain and background are green, with a white sky and a large blue and white brush stroke streaking across the top.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2021
16” x 20”
Image description: Painting of a cityscape featuring the side of a building and parking lot with parked cars, under a dramatic cloudy late-afternoon sky that is clear blue toward the top of composition. The building’s wall is covered in a mural that appropriates Banksy’s Girl With Balloon, with the addition of a dog on a leash.
Oil on canvas
2021
20” x 16”
Image description: Painting of a large, multicolored neon sign at twilight. The sign is in the shape of two palm trees and reads “THE PALMS MOTOR HOTEL,” with a lit-up arrow pointing right. The sky is a very dark teal. In the background is a faintly visible, dark motel building with lights above doors. A car is parked to the right of the sign, reflecting bright pink and teal light from the neon. In the foreground is the silhouette of a safety railing in front of the light rail tracks.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2022
30” x 24”
Image description: Painting of the Laurelhurst Theater in Portland, as seen in fading evening light. The sky is dark blue behind the brilliant multicolored lights of the large vintage neon sign, which spells “LAURELHURST” in red vertically arranged letters. There are bikes parked on the sidewalk and a car driving by on the right, reflecting the neon lights.
Gouache, colored pencil, graphite and digital photo on watercolor paper
2018
19” x 15”
Image description: Painting of the St. Johns Bridge at dusk, enveloped in loosely rendered rain in blue-grey, dripping brushstrokes. The hills in the background are dark and shrouded in mist. There are cars driving on the bridge in the distance, their lights dramatically reflected on the wet pavement.
Oil, acrylic, graphite and colored pencil on canvas
2023
16” x 20”
Image description: Painting of a city street viewed through a window. The lower part of the composition shows a wood counter, coffee cup and two books; the view outside is blurry and rainy, with dripping brushstrokes and pencil marks.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2022
24” x 30”
Image description: Painting of the Fair-Haired Dumbbell building in Portland on a rainy day. The entire face of the building is covered with an ornate, abstract multicolored mural of floral shapes on off-white, and square windows of various sizes are scattered throughout. In the foreground is an intersection and traffic lights; at right, a yellow sign indicates a zig-zag curve ahead.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
20” x 16”
Image description: Painting of a tall building with an ornate Spanish Colonial-style facade, lit with golden sunlight against a sky of abstract blue-grey vertical streaks suggesting a sunshower. A red vertical sign reading “HOLLYWOOD” is attached by bars to the side of the building at left, and a marquee also reading “HOLLYWOOD” with multicolored lights is seen toward the bottom of the painting.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
24” x 20”
Image description: Painting of the Bagdad Theater in Portland, as seen from across the corner on a grey, rainy day. The building yellowish building is adorned with large neon signs reading “BAGDAD,” and the marquee lights are reflected on the wet pavement. Drips of paint convey a wet, rainy atmosphere.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
18” x 14”
Image description: Painting of the landmark tower at Portland’s Union Station, with neon letters at the top spelling “GO BY TRAIN.” The building and tower are a dark brick red, illuminated with dim artificial light, the structures almost in silhouette against a dramatic sunrise.
Oil, acrylic and ink on canvas panel
2021
9” x 12”
Image description: Painting of downtown Portland’s skyline, the Willamette River, and a wide grassy area (nicknamed “the Bowl”) along the waterfront. At right, three tall buildings (including KOIN tower and the Wells Fargo building) visible are reflecting bright glints of sunrise light, also reflected on the river’s surface. The sky is an abstract wash of blue-grey drips.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
24” x 30”
Image description: Painting of the Burnside Bridge in Portland, viewed from just to the right of the bridge looking west toward downtown. The river is seen at lower right, and has a green color. The sky is grey and streaked with drips and loose brush strokes suggesting rain. Three cars appear driving across the bridge, their headlights reflecting on the wet pavement. The “Portland, Oregon” neon sign can be seen, with the West Hills beyond.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
36” x 12”
Image description: Narrow, vertically-oriented painting of a Portland street corner under an overcast sky. The foreground is dominated by a lamppost and street sign reading “E Burnside St”, which are reflected on a building at left. In the distance are a tree in bright fall colors and the Fair-Haired Dumbbell building, with its multicolored mural.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
16” x 20”
Image description: Painting of a neighborhood street, viewed at a low angle and riddled with potholes and cracks. Puddles in the potholes reflect a subtle gradient of pink and blue in the sky. Houses, trees and a truck in the background are rendered blurry with atmospheric perspective, while the pavement in the foreground is seen in sharp detail.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2023
24” x 18”
Image description: Painting of an evergreen tree viewed from below, against a blue-purple twilight sky. The tree is rendered in dark greens and blacks, in silhouette against the sky.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2021
24” x 30”
Image description: Painting of the long eastside ramp approaching the Fremont Bridge in Portland, under a grey sky with a row of small trees in the foreground with vibrant red leaves. The double-decker elevated ramp is has a slight pale green color, and becomes less defined as it winds into the distance toward the arch of the bridge, which is just barely visible near the center of the composition. The color palette is muted and mostly grey except for the vivid reds of the trees.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2022
24” x 36”
Image description: Painting of the Steel Bridge in Portland, viewed from the east bank of the Willamette river under a grey, rainy sky. The bridge dominates the right third of the composition, a towering construction of dark steel beams. On the horizon is an out-of-focus downtown skyline. Vertical stripes of different colors suggest abstracted rain.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
24” x 30”
Image description: Painting of Tilikum Crossing in Portland, with a brilliant pink sunrise behind it. The bridge is partly covered in snow, and golden morning light hits the towers and beams of the structure. The West Hills and a number of buildings can be seen on the horizon, and a full moon is visible low in the sky.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
16” x 20”
Image description: Painting of Tilikum Crossing in Portland at night. The bridge, at right, is lit bright green and white. Two small red lights are visible atop the central towers. The radiating beams of the bridge are seen at a dramatic angle, almost directly overhead. At left is a dark expanse of night sky, the lights of buildings and houses, and the aerial tram tower, lit in blue.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2023
11” x 14”
Image description: Painting of the downtown Portland skyline as seen at night, from across the river at the eastern foot of the Hawthorne Bridge. Multicolored city lights reflect vividly on the still water. Dimly lit tree branches and shrubbery frame the composition in the foreground.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2021
28” x 22”
Image description: Painting of Portland’s Montavilla neighborhood under a blue sky, as seen looking down a sloping street on Mt. Tabor. At right are houses with abundant, colorful foliage in front; receding into the distance are more houses, treetops, and rolling hills, with a hazy Mt. Hood faintly visible. At left, telephone poles stand tall, with a complex tangle of wires extending in all directions.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
24” x 12”
Image description: Painting of Reservoir #5 on Portland’s Mt. Tabor, with one of the castle-like structures at right, and a view of the distant downtown skyline on the horizon. The painting has a tall vertical shape and a motif of dripping, striping texture in a spectrum of greys suggesting overcast and rain.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2021
24” x 8”
Image description: Tall, narrow painting of the Academy Theater in Portland, viewed from the sidewalk on a cloudy day. There are vertical blue and white neon lights above large letters spelling ACADEMY, horizontal multicolored neon lights, and a row of blue bulbs below the marquee. The sidewalk is wet and reflective with fresh rain. In the foreground, a bike is parked at a bike rack.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2018
36” x 12”
Image description: Painting of a city street with hills behind it, in dim twilight. The composition has a tall, narrow vertical shape. In the foreground is a motel with a large vintage sign. The sign is not lit, but lights on the motel building reflect on the wet street. Above, in the hills, one of several houses has a large neon sign in the shape of a martini glass.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
30” x 40”
Commissioned by the CEO of Moonstruck.
Image description: Painting of the Moonstruck Chocolate building and parking lot on a rainy fall day, surrounded by trees and foliage, with the St. Johns Bridge looming at left. The building is a long, brown two-story structure with an unconventional stair-step shape in two places. At right is a stairway leading to the retail shop with a door and large window. Near this stairway is a bike rack with two parked bikes.
Oil, acrylic, graphite and rainwater on canvas
2019
24” x 36”
Image description: Painting of an orange and blue streetcar, at left, on a track that crosses a perpendicular track. The streetcar is painted realistically, and the rest of the composition is abstract. The tracks are simple lines, and the full composition is covered in dripping grey tones, with the colors of the streetcar reflected as in wet pavement. Two loosely rendered figures in grey are walking, one with an umbrella.
Acrylic on canvas
2018
24” x 36”
Image description: Painting of a gently sloping neighborhood street and a Spanish-style apartment building flanked by trees covered in pink cherry blossoms. The sky has a pink tone and abstract, dripping marks. Golden-hour light is hitting the upper portions of the building and trees.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2022
11” x 14”
Image description: Painting of the Oregon Theater in Portland, a rectangular brick building with a green awning over a yellow fluorescent light illuminating a green-painted entryway and dark windows. A single bare tree stands in front of the building. The composition has a faded, grungy aesthetic.
Oil and acrylic on canvas panel
2022
12” x 9”
Image description: Painting of the “Witch’s Castle” in Portland’s Forest Park, a run-down ruin of a small stone building covered in moss and foliage, seen against an abstract background of soft green, brown and grey.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
12” x 16”
Image description: Painting of an old, mossy wooden dock at the edge of a pond in the woods. Bright sunlight is streaming through trees on the opposite bank, illuminating vivid green-gold moss on the dock and on branches in the foreground.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
16” x 12”
Image description: Painting of Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge, seen at right as viewed from the west side. The sky is dark and overcast, and the bridge, riverbank, trees and distant freeway overpasses are lit with bright golden hour light. The surface of the river reflects colors of the scene.
Acrylic on canvas
2018
24” x 36”
Image description: Painting of a neighborhood skyline, with rooftops, trees, a green water tower, and power lines. The sky is overcast in a dramatic dark blue-grey, while the scene is bathed in vivid golden hour sunlight.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
22” x 55”
Image description: Long, horizontally-oriented painting of a neighborhood street during sunrise, with bright golden light illuminating a wide hill in the distance, a telephone pole, and some of the trees on the street. The golden light contrasts vividly with the grey-blue sky. The street has multiple potholes full of water, reflecting the scene.
Oil and acrylic on canvas panel
2021
8” x 10”
Image description: Painting of a city street at sunset. Two fluffy clouds are lit in bright yellow and orange against a blue and pink sky. Toward the horizon is a small, faint portion of a rainbow. There is a median strip in the street, and overhead are light rail wires, three red traffic lights, and a lit signal indicating the MAX is approaching.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2022
12” x 9”
Image description: Painting of Rose City Food Park in Portland, a grouping of food carts in front of a teal wall, at twilight. The late evening sky is purple-blue, and in the dimly lit foreground are picnic tables and one leg of a canopy. At center, brightly lit, is a yellow food cart with two silhouetted customers at the window.
Oil on canvas
2021
16” x 12”
Image description: Painting of a brightly colored building on a city street corner, under a blue sky. The building is three stories tall, with walls of yellow and teal and magenta and pink trim. The ground floor facade is dark blue, with a sign reading “QUICK WASH.” A telephone pole and traffic lights stand in front of the building, and at far right the street, trees, and a house are visible.
Oil and acrylic on canvas panel
2022
11” x 14”
Image description: Painting of a squat brick building, with a low concrete railing extending to the right. A twisting tree stands in front of the building at left. The roof and the top of the railing are covered with bright green moss, contrasting sharply with the grey background and muted colors of the structures.
Oil and acrylic on canvas panel
2018
10” x 8”
Image description: Painting of downtown Portland buildings, including KOIN tower, using simple clean red lines over a grey background that fades from dark grey at bottom to lighter grey at top. In the lower portion are the outlines of shrubbery and the riverbank. A few drips of light grey paint descend from the top of the composition.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2019
30” x 24”
Image description: Painting of a rainy cityscape at night, with a slightly abstracted aesthetic. Tall buildings are seen in the background, one with a row of red and green lights near the top and one with a row of blue lights near the top. The sky is a deep turquoise. In the foreground are a bright yellow streetlight and a traffic light lit green. Both are reflected in the street, and the whole scene is populated with drips and stripes representing pouring rain.
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2022
30” x 12”
Image description: Tall, narrow painting of the Convention Center in Portland. The upper portion of the composition features the green glass spires against an overcast sky; below is the yellowish building, a glass-roofed bus shelter and foliage.
Gouache, colored pencil and digital photo on watercolor paper
2018
16” x 12”
Image description: Painting of a MAX light rail car, which appears at left, on a gently sloping city street. There is a three-story parking garage building, and a person walking with an umbrella. The streaking brushstrokes and blue-orange color scheme suggest a sunshower.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2018
30” x 10”
Image description: Tall, narrow painting of West Burnside Street in Portland, looking west, with the West Hills in the distance. A blue neon sign reading “VOLVO” is seen on one of the buildings at left. The scene is rainy, evidenced by multicolored angled lines throughout, and car headlights reflected on the street.
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2018
12” x 9”
Image description: Painting of a motel sign in dark twilight. The largest portion of the lit sign reads “Super Value Inn,” using a dollar sign for the first “s.” Below this is another section with marquee lettering that reads “WE GOT INTERNET.” A red neon “VACANCY” sign sticks out to the left. The sky is a dark blue, and an evergreen tree and telephone pole are silhouetted in the background.