CV

Exhibitions

2022  Funny HaHa, West Gallery, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

2021 DC Art Now, DC Commision of the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC

2020 Into the Void, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson, MD

2019 Ocarina of Time, Resort, Baltimore, MD

Bethesda Painting Awards, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

How Can You Tell?, CADE Gallery of Art, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD

2018 Limoncello, St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD

Solitary Bees, Visart Center, Rockville, MD *solo

2017 Sondheim Finalist Exhibition, Walter’s Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Curated by Ruba Katrib, Clifford Owens, and Nat Trotman

Edges, MAXGallery, Baltimore, MD

In My Room, Linden Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2016 Mid-Atlantic New Painting, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA

2015 So Hot Right Now, Arizona State University Gallery, Tempe, AZ

Perspective 2015, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC

2014 Colors and Things, Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury, MD

Gutsy!, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD

Convergence: Boston University Alumni Show, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

Dedication: Faculty Exhibition, CCBC Essex Gallery, Rosedale, MD

2013 See Through, ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD *solo

Strictly Painting, McLean Center for the Arts, McLean, VA

Shake Down, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD

2012 Call Collect, Hamiltonian Artists, Washington, DC

Small Paintings, John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD*solo show

Walk the Line, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD

2010 MFA Thesis II, Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD

Awards Residencies and Text

2019 Best in Show, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, MD

2018 Inertia Studio Visits, Interview

2018  Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Nominee

2016    Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

2016  Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

2013  Michael Farley, The World is Flat, Baltimore City Paper, January 16, 2013

2012   Residency, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY

2011   Semi-Finalist, Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, MD

2011   Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2008-2010 Mount Royal Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2005   Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Education

2010 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD

        Masters of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studio Art

        Mount Royal School of Art

 2004 Boston University, Boston, MA

         Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting

         College of Fine Arts

Statement

I paint self-contained worlds populated with nameable an unnamable objects. In these paintings, I seek solutions to self-generated problems, working intuitively until a resonant moment emerges.  My visual vocabulary borrows from architecture, textiles and cartoons.  Thickly painted impasto, transparent glazes, immediate brushstrokes and slow build-ups of marks coexist on each canvas. Saturated colors and patterns oscillate between harmony and discord, like reams of fabric piled on a table. I play games of perception and illusion, while all the time reveling in the material and process of painting. 

 My recent paintings depict overlays and cut-outs. Abstract, organic forms meet the surrounding spaces like puzzle pieces or bodies merging. The forms behave as physical objects; catching light, casting shadows, and weaving through surfaces. Utilizing humor and suspension of disbelief, my paintings reference tromp l'eoil still lives, flat patterns and digital imagery. These elements together create spaces that are simultaneously straight-forward and ambiguous, toeing the line between abstraction and illusionism. Conflicting visual narratives abound as shapes alternately dominate and undermine one another in carefully choreographed chaos.