Artist Statement
I have always made art from a necessity to create a sense of order and meaning, to transcend the everyday. The words I write, the things I paint and render, are daily exercises of my viewing, remembering and imagining.
I have always made art from a necessity to create a sense of order and meaning, to transcend the everyday. The words I write, the things I paint and render, are daily exercises of my viewing, remembering and imagining.
My work explores how memory shapes who we are, individually and collectively, and the human brain’s intrinsic drive to search for meaning. Working across drawing, painting, printmaking, poetry, and video, I use each medium as a distinct language. I approach memory as a shared human condition: subjective, interpretive, deeply personal, and inherently relational formed through our interactions with one another and the world. My work visualizes the ways meaning is constructed, pointing toward a fundamental humanism we hold in common.
My recent paintings mark a turning point in my practice. After years of working alongside neuroscientists, the work responds more directly to the social atmosphere we inhabit—fractured attention, widening divisions, subtle dislocations, and a growing sense of isolation that mediates how we see and feel about one another. Figures and animals inhabit landscapes that are part observed, and part imagined, at once realistic and dreamlike. I work on still lives for moments of pause, a sense of order, and quiet harmony.
The figures are often separated, while animals engage in direct exchange or confrontation, creating contrast and tension. Quality of rendering is important to my work: color, shape, and texture operate as connective carriers of memory. Each painting holds the poetics of stillness alongside the tension between inner life and external reality, humanity and nature. These open-ended compositions function as narrative spaces—collapsed and associative, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and experiences into the work.
Ultimately, these paintings are contemplative spaces that speak to fragility and resilience, revealing the emotional landscapes we carry. I am drawn to capturing the felt experience beyond literal appearance, recognizing that emotion and lived experience give memory its depth and form. By distilling complex relationships into intimate encounters where the personal may briefly become shared, memory emerges as a site of common ground—and a space for conversation.
My recent paintings mark a turning point in my practice. After years of working alongside neuroscientists, the work responds more directly to the social atmosphere we inhabit—fractured attention, widening divisions, subtle dislocations, and a growing sense of isolation that mediates how we see and feel about one another. Figures and animals inhabit landscapes that are part observed, and part imagined, at once realistic and dreamlike. I work on still lives for moments of pause, a sense of order, and quiet harmony.
The figures are often separated, while animals engage in direct exchange or confrontation, creating contrast and tension. Quality of rendering is important to my work: color, shape, and texture operate as connective carriers of memory. Each painting holds the poetics of stillness alongside the tension between inner life and external reality, humanity and nature. These open-ended compositions function as narrative spaces—collapsed and associative, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and experiences into the work.
Ultimately, these paintings are contemplative spaces that speak to fragility and resilience, revealing the emotional landscapes we carry. I am drawn to capturing the felt experience beyond literal appearance, recognizing that emotion and lived experience give memory its depth and form. By distilling complex relationships into intimate encounters where the personal may briefly become shared, memory emerges as a site of common ground—and a space for conversation.