Cheers, Come In

01. For New Guests: I Want to Schedule a Visit to EXP/MP Living Room Gallery North Miami Beach

If we haven’t met before, please include in your intro message [this is my name, where I live, what I do with links if applicable]. Then we’ll set up a video call to find a good time to visit. I meet gallery guests in Bal Harbour for a short beach walk to take in the lovely atmospherics before going to my place for appetizers, drinks, music and to view the paintings.

If we have met, then what are you waiting for, you have an open invitation, did I mention I have a concert grade stereo — good times!

02. Social Media

I dropped out of social media in 2024 (delete all + noindex) as I now put all my effort in cultivating in-person relationships. Why? Low engagement devalues your work, forces you into playing games, I have no interest or appetite for that going forward.

Buying rounds of drinks at a pool bar or outdoor terrace is more enjoyable, provides a higher yield than boosting posts on Instagram. I absolutely love YouTube on my TV but I’m completely out of any mobile phone based social media — don’t miss it!

03. Getting Personal: Context of EXP

I started on the A-track, working at a top architecture & interiors firm in downtown San Diego after receiving my M.Arch but got laid off during the financial crisis in 2009 despite surviving the first two rounds of cuts. My life then spiraled into a brutal, uphill struggle for many years and I made it worse because I felt the life I deserved was taken from me, so I began to want to hit rock bottom as that Joy Division line vividly relates: I watched it slip away. I finally found inner peace — emptiness — re-invented myself from zero with painting starting in 2014.

It’s inexplicable why painting is such an intimate and deeply personal endeavor. When I say I’m a painter to someone I meet, to myself that doesn’t mean that painting is all I do. What it means is I’ve chosen to live an intellectual life; I can spend days/weeks reading poetry and writing in my journal — that permanently affects you. Ultimately, my work is what I see when I step into silence.

EXP/MP Living Room Gallery North Miami Beach

Schedule a Happy Hour Visit | We are located directly on the intracoastal, 4 miles inland from Sunny Isles Beach, about 25 minutes north of Lincoln Road or less than 10 minutes from Aventura Mall.

Summer 2026 Closing Update

Lovely decade long run (2014-2024) but I’m up for a change now. So what’s next? I don’t know yet, turning 55 this year and feelin’ one more full-strength run is left in the tank. Open to leaving Miami Beach for overseas, looking intently but haven’t found what my new focus will be. I won’t be posting ever again as I’ve gone the distance, loved the ride (retired, LOL) but will keep this site up indefinitely to visit on occasion to relive moments. I enjoy going through it spontaneously when craving reflection after a nice afternoon lunch with a few glasses of wine!

I’m mapping the contours of my next move to realize what appeals to me deep down at this stage in life? What’s fascinating is awareness doesn’t age but to get into the clearing on a day to day level to live with fresh eyes is a daily battle, if I can help in some way both myself and others in that area, that’s appealing!

Cheers to generous friends, family and my beach drinking buddies who bought paintings over the years! /MP