Contemporary Artist
I make art as a way of exploring experiences before they are accessible through language.
At the heart of my practice is an interest in embodied epistemology: how we come to know and understand ourselves through lived experience. My work often begins with something unresolved: a sensation, a memory, a relationship, a place, or a question I don't yet know how to answer. I'm interested in how the worlds we inhabit and move between shape our perception and sense of self, and in the space between what we experience and the identities, beliefs, and ways of seeing we've inherited or had projected onto us. Through my work, I explore what happens when we begin to loosen the grip of ego and dismantle the scaffolding of identity opening up the possibility of moving beneath familiar interpretations.
Painting allows me to explore these questions from the ground up. Working intuitively and channeling deeply from the subconscious, I respond to materials, gestures, and forms without beginning with a fixed idea or interpretation. I work across encaustic, acrylic, watercolor, oils, drawing materials, and ceramics, often layering, obscuring, and revisiting the work as it develops. Making becomes a way of moving beneath familiar explanations, staying with uncertainty, and discovering what might otherwise remain unexpressed.
The experience of inhabiting a female body is central to this inquiry. Motherhood, reproduction, caregiving, and relationships have deepened my interest in embodiment, identity, and transformation. I'm interested in how we internalize expectations and structures, how these shape our understanding of ourselves and one another, and what becomes possible when we break through them.
This inquiry extends into the space between people. Some of my paintings are created collaboratively with my daughter or incorporate artwork made independently by children. Rather than directing their contributions, I respond to their marks and gestures, allowing different ways of perceiving and expressing experience to coexist, interact, and give rise to something neither could have anticipated alone.
Alongside painting, occasionally I leverage my perspective as an artist to develop tools. My background in emerging technology, design, and organizational transformation informs this work, particularly my interest in how systems shape perception, influence identity, and affect our capacity for independent judgment and agency.
Across these different forms of making, I return to questions of how we know what we know, how we become who we are, and what becomes possible when we move beyond inherited ways of seeing. I don't approach the work with answers. Making is part of how I question, discover, and understand.
