Welcome!
I am a New York-based multimedia artist, my primary medium being oil paint. My studies at Pratt Institute shaped my work, which focuses on my experience of loving, living, and losing amid this anarchic contemporary world.
My work plays with the uncanny sense of coexisting with a full scale figurative form, and utilizes body as language, a dialect universally understood. 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 figurative forms reconfigured.
My most recent work explores my experience with physical impairment and surgical trauma. The work contorts, manipulates, and reconfigures figurative forms in ways intended to inhibit, emphasize, alter, obscure, or reinvent function.
The paintings explore body as stranger, and unravel the idea of body through forms of similarity and dissimilarity, reconfigured. The anatomical alterations transcend expectations of body, intended to confuse visual modes of recognition and disorient physical familiarity in an attempt to provoke an awareness of similarity in form but dissimilarity in function. An uncanny familiarity of seeing parts of yourself within a figuration that challenges our idea of the human body.
My visual reference being my own body is not intended to create self portraits, but instead exist as self portraits without self, with no identifying features included. As a classically trained ballerina, my voice and mind in its truest form has always been when expressed through my own body.
I am inspired by my experiences and struggles in life, the women and people around me, my surroundings in Brooklyn New York, and the history and artists that I have studied at Pratt Institute.