Here's a new piece for this month's Scientific American Magazine about the difficulty around diagnosing and treating sepsis, a deadly blood disease. I really enjoyed this one, and it was a challenge to mimic the classical painting I used in my sketch. Thanks again to Ann Chin on this one.

 

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Here's my piece in today's New York Times Op-Ed about illegal children immigrants being caught up in the US legal system. It was cool to be able to change the format a bit, thanks to AD Matt Dorfman.

 

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A while back I did a piece for Scientific American about predictive fetal genome screening. Here's what I came up with. Thanks to AD Ann Chin!

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I am really excited and honored to be included in the NY Times Notable Opinion Art of 2012!! It feels great to be next to some amazing artists and friends! Thank you to all the awesome art directors, and looking forward to kicking out some great work with you for 2013!

 Here's today's piece for the NY Times Op/Ed section. The article is about hurricane Sandy's destruction of lab equipment, samples, and a lifetime worth medical research. Thanks again to Matthew Dorfman for throwing me an awesome assignment!

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I recently did four spots for Stanford Social Innovation Review, which is a magazine dedicated to non-profit business. The articles were pretty dense and quite a challenge to come up with non-cliche images. It was a good challenge and exercise...always trying to get better at this problem solving!

From Dependency to Self Sufficiency: The Africa Governance Initiative

The Power of Unreasonable Teams: Intrapreneurs

Redefining Community Foundations: A CEO's reflections

Complete Capitol: Integrated Solutions

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I made this sculpture last week for a gift exchange...but then last minute decided that it was too creepy to give. It's made of foam, tracing paper, watercolor, graphite, brass pins, and resin. I love these gross sculptures! I want to do more!

 

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I've been pretty busy recently, and have neglected posting some cool stuff. A while back the crew over at Soulpancake visited my studio and filmed a time lapse video of me painting from start to finish and interviewed me about my process. It was really fun and the crew were total pros! Despite my blabbering on, their editing really made me sound smart! Haha! Thanks guys!

 Yesterday was the opening of Post It Show 8 at Giant Robot. It was a lot of fun helping to hang the show, and even more fun contributing! The show will be up until the 16th, so go out and snag some awesome art for only $25 each!

Here's a few of my post-its from the show:

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 Here's a piece I did recently for the health section of NY Times about the the morning after pill becoming available to teenagers. I really really love how it turned out! Thanks a bunch to Peter Morance.

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I recently did a cover piece for this weeks issue of Kansas City's The Pitch. This was really fun, working with ghost like silhouettes to give a feeling of absence and alienation. The article is about the difficulty of finding friends in the city, especially in the digital age...something I completely relate to. Thanks to AD Ashford Stamper!

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Today I have a piece in the NY Times letters page about ending life support to dying patients. I love this subject, and feel strongly about this issue because I have personally seen the negative effects of loved ones being stuck on life support while quality of life goes downhill. I have also seen the positive effects of hospice and dying naturally at home. So that being said, this one was pretty easy for me. Thanks a bunch to Alexandra Zsigmond.

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 I've been on a bit of a sabbatical, but now I'm back! I hope you had a fantastic summer! Here's a piece I did recently for the New York Times science section about addiction. Thanks again to AD Peter Morance.

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  Yesterday I had a piece in the NY Times letters section about international criminal courts. It's been busy week!

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I have a piece in today's International Herald Tribune on free speech in Ethiopia. I had to move my computer into the other room...the room with the air conditioner. That being said, I think it worked out well!

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