June 2013

Creating visual tales through drawings, paintings, photography, and video, I examine and connect relationships between people in spaces, habitats, and thoughts. I probe and uncover my own personal universe of domesticity, excitement, boredom, sexuality, and contemplation to learn more about the existence of others.

The style of my work is intimate on both a small and grand scale. The fascination is in juxtaposing common with revelatory moments and daydreams with reality. Drawing images of experiences, memories, and fantasies, I weave these tapestries of life together. The dramatic and the common become equal, and the mysterious and mundane share the same plane. My intention is to understand human existence in a fantastical manner, questioning time, growth, vulnerability, and rebirth.

EDUCATION

Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
Ph.D. student
Philosophy, Art Theory, and Aesthetics
2010 - current

University of Pennsylvania
Master of Fine Arts
Painting
Graduated May 2002

Tyler School of Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Painting and Art History Minor
Graduated 2000

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Psychedelphia, Pageant Gallery, Summer 2013
Kairos Interruptus, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY 2012
Video Screening, Backspace Gallery, Peoria, IL 2011
Hive/Cave, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia 2011
Gold Mountain, Solo Exhibition, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia 2009
Rag and Bone, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia 2008
Intimate Environment, Solo Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia 2007
Long Gone Sally, Two-person Exhibition, Pageant Gallery, Philadelphia 2006
24th Biennial Works on Paper, Arcadia University Art Gallery, PA 2006
19th Annual Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston 2005
Take My Hand, ThreeWalls, Chicago 2005
From the Studio 2: Selections from POST, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia 2005
Operation RAW, Ice Box Project Space, Crane Building, Philadelphia 2005
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Brooklyn Lyceum, Park Slope, Brooklyn 2003, 2004, 2005
Junto, Winter Invitational, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia 2004
The Wedding Project, 65 Hope Street Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2004
North of the Border, Art in Northern Liberties, ADM Gallery, Philadelphia 2004
Female Persuasion, cherrydelosreyes Gallery, LA, CA 2004
T-Shirt Show, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NY, NY 2003
Exist, Solo exhibition, Project Room, Philadelphia 2003
Girls, Girls, Girls, Storefront 1838, Harlem, NY 2003
Bling Bling, Project Room, Philadelphia 2003

ARTIST SLIDE REGISTRIES

Drawing Center Viewing Program NY
Artists Space NY
Maryland State Art Council (MSAC) Visual Artists’ Registry MD