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 you have an open invitation, did I mention I have a concert grade stereo — good times!

02. Social Media

I’m not on any social media as I 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. 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’ve completely dropped 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