I hold an MFA in Painting from Columbia University, and a BA in Visual Art from Bennington College. I have received fellowships and residency awards from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Artist in the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Banff Centre for the Arts. I am the recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation and Artist’s Fellowship, Inc. My work has been reviewed in Art in America, the New York Times, and Fiberarts Magazine, and is included in the prestigious, curated Elizabeth A. Sackler Feminist Archive at the Brooklyn Museum. I have had numerous shows in the US and abroad, including Baang and Burne Contemporary, New York; A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn; Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts; Museum for Art and Culture, New Rochelle, New York; Porter Contemporary, New York; Leslie’s Art Gallery, Luxembourg; Chaffers Gallery, New Zealand; and Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Alma, Michigan.
Artist Statement
In my series of large-scale oil paintings collectively titled Embodiments, I explore the ways in which emotional, psychological, and physical states of being can be cogently expressed via distortions of the body, and the dynamic visual stories that the female body can tell. In these paintings, I am particularly interested in portraying the intimate relationship between sexuality and nature.
My series of small-scale egg tempera paintings collectively titled Lucid Dreams consist of dream-like narratives that are explorations of the subconscious. Collage is a key element initially employed to spark surreal image juxtapositions and Magic Realist compositions that are realized in the finished paintings.
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En esta serie de pinturas en gran formato llamada Embodiments (Encarnaciones), exploro las maneras en que los diferentes estados del ser, ya sean emocionales, psicológicos o físicos, pueden expresarse convincentemente a través de distorsiones del cuerpo y de las historias visuales dinámicas que el cuerpo femenino puede relatar. A través de estas pinturas, me interesa particularmente ilustrar el íntimo vínculo entre la sexualidad y la naturaleza.
Mi serie llamada Lucid Dreams (Sueños Lúcidos) es una colección de pequeñas pinturas en tempera de huevo que consiste en narrativas oníricas que exploran el subconsciente. El collage es el instrumento clave utilizado inicialmente con el fin de generar yuxtaposiciones de imágenes surrealistas y composiciones propias al realismo mágico que se materializan en las imágenes finales.
