Artist Statement

At the core of my work is a recursive consideration of experiencing femininity in a patriarchal society. Paintings emerge through a discussion with both the feminine self and a shared network of experiential womanhood. This connectivity functions as a nourishing source of resilience and healing, as well as power and resistance. My initial approach to these ideas cultivated in a body of large scale, figurative oil paintings and representational acrylic monotypes.

At present, I am considering old motifs and how these can be recreated, reorganized, and repurposed within new works. Moving away from strictly representational work, I am exploring a granular focus of intimacy. Found in everyday domestic interiors, with the figure obscured throughout, the works diffuse recognizable moments into near, yet not complete, abstraction.

Collage functions as a starting point for these monotypes that quietly yet urgently highlight the soft magnitude of everyday life. Here I turn ideas of women’s joy slowly inward into my own life, focusing on otherwise overlooked vignettes that inhabit a space between distortion and clarity. Within compelling luminosity and color work emerges a sort of visual poetry that evokes rather than tells. I view this creative practice as an ongoing inquiry into how intimacy, softness, and connection can function as sites of resilience and resistance.