About the Artist

My paintings reflect my experience—the changes I’ve gone through in my life—the new things, the old things, the past, and the present. Each painting is an experience that takes time and it’s created in stages. I add and delete elements as I paint and often return to old paintings to recreate and reinvent them. In some ways, I never really see a painting as finished.

The things that interest me aren’t representational, they are emotional and universal: the feeling of space and texture and layers. The designer in me sees the balance of composition, color, shape, and scale.

Several of my paintings are named with the word beyond in the title, something I think about very often. Why beyond? I think it’s because I’m fascinated by the primitive and infinite beauty of how I imagine space to be beyond our vision and our own environment. It’s bigger than I am, bigger than we are. But the realities of a canvas—its edges, lines, and borders—serve as a metaphor for the boundaries that I place on myself. I’m a naturally private person with a narrow comfort zone. The adding and removing of layers of paint speak to my desire to hide from the unknown. But being private doesn’t mean being isolated. I am surrounded by family and friends. In the end, I am both excited by—and hesitant to enter—the world that exists beyond my control. 

My work is in homes and businesses in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Palm Springs, New York City, San Francisco, Phoenix, East Hampton, Paris, and Washington D.C.

Education:

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The Ohio State University. I have studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Arti di Perugia, Italy, and Cité international universitaire in Paris. My university courses concluded with a contemporary painting independent study group in New York City, as well as in junior management at a major Fifth Avenue retailer.

Recent exhibitions:
Daring to be Avant-Garde, Nuu Muse   Gallery, Dallas, Texas - Group Show, 2024   

Purple Show, December 10, 2023-January 10, 2024

Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM—Group Show, July 21 through December 23, 2023

Galleryone962 Online Art Prize from November-December 2023.

 Artsy, Jen Tough Gallery, October -December 2023

Artsy—June 1-December 31, 2023

Art Impact International, What is Love? Group Online Show, Feb.14-April 23, 2023

ArtExpo New York, Jen Tough Gallery, Group Show, March 31-April 3, 2023

Sabbia, 900 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago—Solo Holiday Show 2022

Vestage Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA—Group Show 2022

The Other Art Fair Chicago—by Saatchi, 2021

Art Impact International, Washington D.C.—Solo Show, Circling the Skies, 2021

Busboys and Poets Restaurant, Washington D.C.—Group Show, 2021

Light, Space and Time Online Gallery—Honorable Mention

Gray Cube Gallery

Singulart Paris