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ARTIST

My ultimate goal as an artist is to elicit emotion and feeling. I pose questions of time and ecology, exploring how humans relate to and try to separate themselves from the natural world (obviously: we are a part of it). The themes that resonate with me are filled with urgency; my attempt at enabling myself and others to pause and contemplate allows for at least a moment of respite as we cling to our delusion that we can control the flow of time and “conquer” the natural world without damaging ourselves. 

Memory is my primary media – with whatever physical media works best for the piece at hand. In one piece, these media might be as varied as ceramics, digital video, or dry ice; in another, a more “traditional” medium such as graphite or acrylic paint. Lately, ceramics has been my jam.

Indirectly descended from the women “surrealists” (who were not actually considered surrealists at the time because they were women), and, to a lesser extent, the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, my work finds inspiration in the work of artists/filmmakers such as Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Deborah Stratman, Jodie Mack, and Sharon Lockhart, the figurative/portraiture work of Alberto Giacometti and Frank Auerbach, and Steph Kubish.