LIFE IS ART
I’ve known I was obsessed with making and material since first grade. Everything since has been figuring out what that actually means.
I was born into a religious cult that had very specific ideas about who I was supposed to be. It took a long time and a lot of loss to figure out who I actually was, and art was a huge part of that process. It still is.
The losses weren’t small, and the list is exhaustive. Identity. My father. Community. Relationships. Businesses, a solo show. Along the way, I raised a child, dove into my own healing, and built brands for others while silently navigating all of it.
We observe chaos and attempt to contain it or transmute it. That’s what I was doing. That’s what the work was doing too.
Inspired by the cycles of nature and the relentless dance of birth and decay, light and shadow, chaos and order, I explore the thresholds of transition where transformation quietly takes place. Our relationship to space and time, to inheritance and memory, to what we carry in our bodies across generations, these are the questions my work keeps returning to. The liminal moments of coming undone and reassembling anew reveal the deepest forms of beauty and resilience.
My practice moves between series.
Cellular paintings that have been with me since I was 19, intuitive and colorful and abstract, that somehow keep painting the truth of things before I understand what I’m seeing.
ONOFF works on paper that look directly at the world without flinching.
Visual meditations on presence, place, infrastructure, and overwhelm.
Representations of the body and our surroundings, responses. The cellular and spiritual acts of reconstructing differently.
The through line in all of it is the same. What lives beneath the surface. What surrounds us. What we inherit. What we shed. What comes through when we stop performing and start paying attention.
Life is art and alchemy.
I’m based in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Commissions open. Originals available.