Welcome!
I am a New York-based multimedia artist, my primary medium being oil paint. My studies at Pratt Institute in Painting, Fine Art, Photography, Illustration, Fashion Design, and Art History have shaped my work, which focuses on the human experience of loving, living, and losing amid the anarchic contemporary world.
My work aims to evoke sublime levels of feeling that toy with the uncanny sense of relating to an image. With my work, the viewer may relate to and empathize with painted images of a figural posture that exudes blatant emotions, a canvas drenched in a fragile memory, or figural depictions of loved ones. I paint to create technical artworks, but more importantly, I paint to create evocatively candid pieces that move the viewer and not solely to aesthetically entertain. The oils on canvas celebrate the beauty of brush strokes and negative space, with an emphasis on movement and translucency.
My practice and creations continue to explore the boundaries of what has already been done, challenge what should be done, and redefine what can be done by exploring niche compositions and palettes as well as marrying realism painting techniques with loose and abstract painting styles. My most recent figural works revolve around lost time, lost loved ones, and memory, as well as the pains of feeling invisibly visible, distrusting, and mistreated by love. I am inspired by my experiences and struggles in life, the women and people around me, my surroundings in Brooklyn New York, and the artists and writers that I have studied at Pratt Institute.