Over the past two decades, I have been making art which challenges our long held understandings of time, space, and matter. With a focus on the most lush and ethereal phenomena of the natural world in my work (in particular flowers), I ask the viewer to consider the past, present, and future lives of my subjects. My use of layered antique & vintage collage materials provides the historical building blocks for illustrating the complexities of what was, what is, and what could be. My drawing practice create maps of the energy that nourish my subjects, becoming visual diaries of their experiences and evolutions.
I am a firm believer that art can happen anywhere, anytime, and with any materials one has access to. This idea is at the root of my own creative practice, and also part of the guidance I share when teaching art.
I am a 1996 graduate of Bennington College and received my MFA in 2005 from The School of Visual Arts, where I focused on the study of painting, drawing, and collage. I moved to Rhode Island in 2008, and currently work out of an antique and vintage paper filled studio in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood. In 2025 I had the good fortune to show my work with the Dryden Gallery in Providence, RI, The Affordable Art Fair Boston represented by PxP Contemporary, and lead classes and artist talks at and Squam Art Workshops in Holderness, New Hampshire. In November of 2025, I’ll be exhibiting a selection of my sketchbook & mixed media works at RiffRaff Bookstore in Providence as part of their Featured Artist program.