I celebrate the mystery that makes life both breathtaking and confounding. Within my art, complexity is a call to action, an invitation to come together to face the challenges before us.

I make art out of the stuff of our lives.  From books to discarded clothing, I create layered, cellular, highly textural pieces that question what we value and how this plays out in the world around us.  Finished with a nontoxic resin, my work takes on a jewel-like, reflective finish, provoking a closer look at what lies below the surface.

I’m in the midst of expanding the scale and impact of my art by constructing suspended installations within my studio, where I maintain an active public presence at the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

My affinity for language brought about MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY in 2023, a series titled after and referencing important books of poetry, in which I explore the complexities of our connections to one another through the context of clothing and textiles.

In 2022, I completed MIRRORS, a series of pieces made out of Essence Magazine and pressed roses over mirrors, as a call to address bias and willful blindness in myself and others.  

From 2019 through 2021, I constructed MARGINALIA from encyclopedias, which examines the changes in how we think about and share information and asks wall-sized questions about where we’re headed and what we want to create. 

I live with my husband and daughter in rural Charlotte Hall, Maryland and commute to my studio in Alexandria, Virginia, just south of D.C.  Born in Medford, Oregon in 1979, I grew up making art of all kinds but never imagined it could be a career.  Instead, inspired by a great high school teacher, I went to college to become a physics professor.  I studied math and science without particular interest until I took a semester off to travel to Nairobi, Kenya.  There, teaching high school math in an orphanage in Dagoretti Corner and traveling solo throughout the Kenyan countryside, I developed a desire to be of service, to find work that honored those I encountered.

After returning home, I finished my degree studying creative writing, again influenced by a teacher I greatly admired who helped me to see art as an incredible force in our world.  Once I returned to visual art, this time using things from everyday life, I could see a path before me, one that encompassed my ongoing need to build a career of breadth and purpose. My particular art is a product of this wayward journey.  Its process is experimental and ever-evolving.  Its substance is the stuff of our lives.