The themes of transformation, safety, resilience and the passage of time inform my work. Across mediums (painting, sculpture, and photography), my abstracted figures appear not quite human. This affords them the ability to traverse liminal space; occupying both the physical and nonphysical realms. They are shape shifters who that can adapt to different needs and situations. I have long been interested in inventing my own worlds. As a young child, my imagination afforded me a way to surround myself with safety and a connection to something no one else could see.
Today my work is more rooted in the physical environment in which I inhabit. Now living now in New York City, my palette is gleaned from the urban textures and diverse peoples moving through through the city. I also gather and reuse found materials, including scraps from previous paintings and random papers and odd bits collected on my city walks. Discarded materials collected from the city streets are the primary source for my sculptures. I endeavor to remember and reconstruct the past into a new forms that are responding to and navigating contemporary times.
The abstracted and somewhat otherworldly figures function as a signpost for me to remember the possibilities of connection to people and places both in and beyond the physical world.
Standing with A couple of new pieces at New York School of the Arts