FROM THE STUDIO
Paintings and mixed-media works rooted in memory, identity, emotion, vulnerability, and the things that are sometimes easier to say through materials than words.
BEHIND THE WORK
This collection moves through memory, identity, anxiety, relationships, family history, perception, grief, humor, and becoming.
Materials shift from acrylic and collage to stitching, archival paper, sculpture, plaster, found objects, and layered surfaces. Each piece becomes its own way of holding a thought, a memory, or an emotion.
MEMORY & INHERITANCE
What gets carried forward, what disappears, and what we try to mend.
Fragments Carried Forward
Fragments Carried Forward is a mixed-media exploration of memory, inheritance, and quiet repair. The work reflects on how generational trauma and resilience shape identity, using layered materials to reveal what is carried, concealed, or slowly pieced back together.
Shadowed figures, archival maps, and stitched elements create a visual language of fragmentation, echoing the way personal and familial histories often arrive incomplete.
Stitching becomes a symbol of care, labor, endurance, and the ongoing effort to mend what has been fractured.
A Spirit Remembered
A personal mixed-media work centered on remembrance, presence, and the emotional traces people leave behind.
IDENTITY & PERCEPTION
Who gets seen, how they are seen, and who controls the frame.
He Is the Object
He Is the Object challenges the traditional gaze that has shaped art history by placing the male figure in the role of the observed.
Through composition, styling, and perspective, the work presents masculinity as soft, adorned, vulnerable, and nuanced rather than defined only by strength or dominance.
The piece asks what happens when the power between viewer and viewed shifts.
Through My Lens
This work explores the duality of being both the observer and the observed: how identity can be framed, distorted, or defined by others.
Looking outward and inward at the same time, the piece becomes less a traditional self-portrait and more a reclamation of the frame.
Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Going
A reflection on personal history, the present self, and the uncertainty and possibility held in what comes next.
sometimes the material says
what the words can’t.
INNER WORLDS
Anxiety, insecurity, loss, love, absence, and emotional residue.
Submerged in Anxiety
Submerged in Anxiety visualizes emotional paralysis: the weight anxiety places on both the body and mind.
Modeling paste creates wave-like texture across the surface, turning internal turbulence into something physical.
The work is intentionally raw and atmospheric. It is less about resolution than recognition.
When Insecurities Surface
An image-led exploration of vulnerability, self-perception, and the moment internal insecurities become visible.
Stages of Love and Loss
This work sits in the emotional space between tenderness and loss.
Layered brushwork becomes memory, texture becomes tension, and color becomes emotion as the work moves through joy, doubt, heartbreak, and the quiet return to self.
Milk
Milk examines the emotional residue of abandonment, especially through the lens of fatherlessness.
The title borrows from a familiar cultural joke about paternal absence, but uses that humor as the doorway into a much deeper wound.
The work asks what it means to be shaped by someone who was not there, and how absence can become part of our own becoming.
MATERIAL EXPERIMENTS
Where play, construction, texture, humor, and experimentation take over.
Growth in Layers
Growth in Layers combines craft, technology, and nature to explore the transformative processes that underpin both human development and the natural world.
Dunkin’
Inspired by the familiar “America Runs on Dunkin’” phrase, this piece makes it personal: “I Run on Dunkin’.”
Coffee becomes ritual, comfort, energy, and a playful little lifeline.
Idiot America
Created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this painting critiques the spread of misinformation and the dismissal of scientific facts fueled by media narratives.
The work uses commentary and mockery to encourage critical thinking in moments when information becomes difficult to trust.
STILL MAKING.
The studio is always changing. New materials, new questions, new pieces, new layers.