Contemporary Mixed Media Artist
Artist Statement
My work begins with presence. I am interested in how experiences settle into the body and surface through material. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, I build in layers, allowing repetition, accumulation, and interruption to guide the process. I think about memory as physical, as what can be held, altered, or released. Materials carry their own histories, and I work with them in ways that allow both structure and unpredictability to exist at once. I am drawn to moments of change, rupture, and renewal, where what was fixed breaks open and what is new begins.
What emerges is not a fixed narrative but a space for reflection, where the personal becomes shared. The body is my landscape, marked by time, experience, and everything it has carried.
Practice & Recognition
My work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including Estonia, Australia, and Japan. Selected venues include:
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, Delaware
The Hook Experiment, Oxford, Pennsylvania
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, New Jersey
Park Towne Place, Philadelphia
Monmouth Museum, New Jersey (solo exhibition, Zoom Room Series)
I am the recipient of three Purchase Awards from the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and three Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grants.
My work is held in public and corporate collections including the Museum of Encaustic Art, Johnson & Johnson, Leland Portland Cement, OSI Pharmaceuticals, and the Morgan Research Center (CHOP) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Materials & Process
I work primarily in acrylic, graphite, collage, and found materials, alongside vegetable papyrus, a form of hand papermaking using onions that I have developed within my practice. My work spans painting, sculpture, and installation, and is deeply tactile. Surfaces are built up, scraped back, and layered over time. Water has long been a presence in this work, from shorelines and surf to the shifting seasons of a backyard koi pond, informing how I think about surface, depth, and what lies just beneath. This physical process is inseparable from the conceptual territory I am exploring: the way meaning accrues through accumulation rather than declaration.
Biography
I grew up in New Jersey and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. My material sensibility was shaped early by my grandmothers, one who shared her brushes and paints, another who taught me to crochet and sew, and by my family's millinery shop, where texture, structure, color, and gesture came together in ways that were both intimate and transformative. That foundation has never left my work.
I’ve been making art ever since.
Community & Collaboration
In addition to my studio practice, I work as an educator and curator. I've led commissioned and community-based projects including murals, books, and collaborative works with teen mothers and incarcerated youth, and have curated exhibitions including Chapel of Tears and The Art of Survival.
With author Ellen McVicker, I illustrated and co-created Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings, a children's book supporting families navigating illness that has reached readers around the world.
