I write, paint and make things in Ojai, California. A onetime journalist and author, I began making art seriously in midlife, taking inspiration from the landforms, colors and patterns in nature. My aim is to capture the energy and spirit of place, the simultaneous feeling of awe and humility, of togetherness and singularity, of personal insignificance and limitless possibility.
I serve on the boards of the Ojai Studio Artists and the Ojai Valley Museum and volunteer teaching art and drawing at Help of Ojai.
Exhibitions:
Terra Incognita, solo show of abstract landscapes, imaginary maps and floral still-lifes. Oxford House Projects (Los Angeles), May- September, 2025
Greenbelt: Interplay & Imagination on the Edge of Wildness, solo show of paintings exploring the intersection of the built, the grown & the wild. Santa Paula Museum of Art, May- August 2024.
Betty Lane & Christopher Noxon: From One Generation to the Next, pairing of my work with paintings by my artistic inspiration & late grandmother. Sullivan Goss Gallery (Santa Barbara), May-August 2023.
I’m the author and illustrator of Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, published by Abrams. My other books include Plus One: A Novel and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up. I’ve published stories in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and the New York Times Magazine.
