art that asks you to
look closely

I am a mixed media abstract painter working primarily in oil, with occasional forays into acrylic. My surfaces are built slowly and deliberately through collage, paper mâché, textured gesso, and more. Paintings can also include colored pencil, ink, pastel, and other materials, creating dense, tactile compositions that extend outward toward the viewer. Texture becomes part of the mark-making itself. My paintings ask to be approached closely, to be lingered over and experienced through proximity. Small details reveal themselves only with attention, rewarding patience and intimacy.

My work is rooted in lived experience—emotional, political, social, and is deeply human. I respond viscerally to the world as it is. The world's beauty, its absurdities, its injustices, and its moments of quiet resilience are all inspiring in their own way. Nature, current events, personal memory, and emotional reaction all coexist within the same visual field, often in tension. Abstraction allows me the freedom to be honest without being literal, and to hold contradiction, complexity, and ambiguity without resolution.

I am drawn to the dynamic and the vibrant, the playful and the powerful. Whimsy operates alongside critique. Joy and daydreaming are my favorite forms of resistance, and resistance is currently (always?) vital to survival. I believe detail is a political act in itself—an assertion that nuance matters, and that looking closely matters. Noticing matters. My paintings do not offer answers, but they do offer space: space to feel, to question, and to recognize fragments of our shared human experience embedded within layered, imperfect, and unapologetically alive surfaces.