Artist Statement
Remains in a state of flux:
My work explores themes of anxiety, stress, depression and how they can be expressed through not only the physical gesture of a piece but also the materials of the work. My sculptures are always either trapped within their domestic scenes or their physical bodies. Windows are the prime route of escape but lead to nowhere. Pipes circling around disappear into walls or end abruptly; sometimes giving gestures towards internal bodily organs. Large ragdoll figures inhabit spaces too. Awkward, disfigured, with copious amounts of yarn hair that constraints them to the surrounding area; swimming in it. Fabric is stretched, pulled, stitched too tight and sometimes leaves holes for the fleshy foam meat to sneak through. This is a nod to the ever relatable and present anxiety that lives around us or inside of us.
I work with a variety of flexible materials like fabrics, foam and yarn because I enjoy the visual effects of something so soft and gentle seeming as fabric being combined with a violent stitch. I also work in ceramics which similarly is something that begins flexible and throughout excruciating circumstances will become structured/rigid. This transition is a concept that I identify with and explore throughout all bodies of my work. Appearing externally soft and flexible but being held together by such harsh lines. Within these pieces there are repeating imagery of domestic scenes, either functional or not, that are pulled from memories of my childhood home or images that I’ve had made up in my head.
Education
CV
2011 - 2015
SUNY Purchase College, BFA in Sculpture
Exhibitions
2023
Figures and Faces, Virtual Group Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery
2nd Annual Fiber Arts Exhibition, Arts Center East Gallery, Vernon CT
Miniature Monumental, Group Exhibition, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
2022
Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River?, Group Exhibition, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Terrarium, Group Exhibition, Ice Cream Social Art, Port Chester, NY
2021
Out My Window, Virtual Group Exhibition, Gallery 118
Bridges and Portals, Group Exhibition, Openings Artist Collective, New York,NY
2017
Household Narratives, Group Exhibition, Gallery North, LI, New York
2015
BFA Senior Thesis Show, Group Exhibition, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Thin-Skinned, Solo Exhibition, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Deconstruction of Women, Duo Exhibition, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2014
The Girls Room, Pop Up Show, The Stood, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Publications
2022
Volumes 49 & 50, Studio Visit Magazine
2015
“The First Time My Sister Left", Sculpto
Artist Talk & Panel
2022
Belonging, Vulnerability, and the Tenacity of Nature: hosted by Ice Cream Social Art
Press
2022
Terrarium at Ice Cream Social, Art Speil
2014
"Wiggin' Out" , Proof of Purchase