My work explores the process of the reconstruction of memory and identity that takes place as generations emerge and disappear. By abstracting the common experiences shared in the discarded photographs of strangers, my paintings distort once-concrete events and memories into new, ambiguous, or unnerving narratives.

You’re bushwhacking in the jungle. Weaving through thick brush, darkness creeps up on you. You suddenly glimpse two shiny eyes, a paw, stripes. A tiger! My paintings unfold in that millisecond between sight and recognition, the instant between seeing stripes and running for your life. At this moment, fragments of things don’t quite add up. In my paintings, a woman’s elbow dissolves into her knee, a vista shifts into blotches of color. Through strokes, scrapes, and pours, my work depicts a fractured sensory world.

My images explore strange journeys through a mythical alter ego of the United States, which hosts characters we recognize alongside invented spirits: arctic foxes, SnoCats, Jabba the Hut relatives, ghosts, and abstract marks. I am fascinated by the world we inhabit, saturated with inventions built to reap benefits that will ultimately confront an era of real, fast change. The arena in my paintings takes off from that trajectory and operates under different rules.

I make dioramas with parallactic illusions. Simply put, as you move, their compositions change. Using foam board, yarn, and Mylar, I construct chambered objects and paint their facets with polygons derived from linear perspective. These two-dimensional shapes straddle multiple planes, exposing the slippage between actual space and perspectival illusion. I am interested in this real but hard to fathom boundary between spatial conceptualization and orientation.

My paintings and sculptural assemblages address the concept of the ideal suburb and the notion of domesticating the natural world. I offer a sense of self-reflection that turns viewers’ attention inward to slow down their understanding of surrounding landscapes, and to question life in conjunction with the environment. Ideas of isolation are ever-present in my work. The aim is not to engage feelings of sadness, but to generate an invitation to contemplate empathetic interpretations of banality. A sense of absurdity is generated by combinations of the

There are two sides to my work. The drawings resemble a diary of mundane life, the record of routine and floating, unstable

I am interested in excavating the queasy relationship between femininity and abjection through a practice of automatic, anti-masterful mark making. This hyper-detailed, meandering line-work challenges salient modes of representational objectification by actively courting the ambiguities of oppression—do these suspended figures depict wounds, portals, or orifices? The negative space surrounding the icons further emphasizes their vulnerability, coaxing the viewer to contemplate personal distance as both a physical and conceptual consideration.

Using screenprinting techniques, I work with ink and motor oil to create photographic monoprints on a variety of surfaces, including canvas, fabric, glass, and wood. Drawn to lavish surfaces, I scratch, burn, or saturate the matrix to embellish and alter the nature of its surface. Introducing the portrait to such a landscape is integral to my style of expression. I am intrigued by identity and the visual representation of self. The portraits I use are those of people involved with subculture, who live outside the constructs of societal norms.

In my painting practice I capture the unnoticed, imperfect, and often fragmented topographies of everyday life. In this series, I question what it is that we choose to see and notice. I paint quiet, broken, utilitarian, and unspectacular objects that are at once familiar and somehow forgotten. Spouts, gutters, and pipes become oddly anthropomorphized when removed from their original context. These small paintings are portraits—bodily in their shape and construction and often functioning as the juncture between inside and outside worlds. They are an exploration of the