about

I have been drawing and painting for many years but decided in 2021 that it was time to get my work out into the world, primarily because my tiny studio is running out of space.
My work has always drawn from emotional inspiration: translating experiences and feelings into images that evoke a similar mood. Sometimes, this means reaching back to memories of experiences, and combining those with a more current understanding. Sometimes, this is about finding a way to express oneself as a part of the whole. There is always a juxtaposition of uniqueness and familiarity or relatability; humans are at the same time fragmented and connected.
When we categorize, there is overlap and there are edges; the human experience is at the same time shared and independent. At the edges - the boundaries of categories - there is an area in which interesting things live: concepts, people, ideas, thoughts, solutions, conundrums. I have always been fascinated by these edges. You would think that maybe this is my half-hearted attempt at rebelling against categorization, a kind of tacit disappointment in generalization, or a defiant need to be unique. Or perhaps it is a need to figure out what gets lost in means, medians, and modes. But really, this is what I see when I look at anything: things have descriptors or belong to categories, but it is ultimately a multi-dimensional Venn diagram, and experiences that are deeply personal can be both relatable or surprisingly unique. There are themes of sense-making, sharing, but also just a need to distill an experience into an image in a way that closes the loop.
I studied painting at Brown University and Industrial Design at Rhode Island School of Design and Delft University. I currently reside in Washington DC with my husband, three kids, and five cats.