My creative practice grows out of the domestic conditions, rituals and materials I interact with each day.
Artist Statement
My creative practice grows out of the domestic conditions, rituals, memories and materials I interact with each day. I use photography - my own and found images - as the basis for my mixed media compositions. I further amplify the themes present in this imagery through analog collage, photo transfer, monoprinting, painting and drawing. Layers of loss, longing and love invariably emerge during this process and offer unforeseen complexities to consider.
My methodology is utilitarian by design and circumstance. As a working mother, I snatch the time, tools and materials I have on hand, whether that’s between project deadlines, using my kid’s mini polaroid camera, or building a library of images from discarded magazines and family photos. My home printer is my printing press.
Ultimately my intention is to uplift the unseen, whether that’s beauty buried under domestic strata, labor that persists unacknowledged, or hidden experiences rooted in intersectional identities. My sources are both personal and political. At a time when American mainstream culture centers productivity and conformity, I assert that nuance, messiness and texture is what makes life worth living.
Education
Rhode Island School of Design
Master of Landscape Architecture
Graduate Studies Grantee; Architecture Travel Grantee
Wellesley College
Bachelor of Studio Art & Bachelor of Art History
Studio Art Department Thesis Honor Student; Magna cum laude
Lamar Dodd School of Art
University of Georgia | Cortona, Italy
Presidential Scholar
Exhibitions
& Open Studios
Faultline Gallery
Oakland, California
Faultline Art Space
Oakland, California
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Deer Isle, Maine
Rhode Island Convention Center
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island
Lupin Foundation Gallery
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Cortona, Italy
Davis Gallery
Wellesley College
Wellesley, Massachusetts