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Artist StatementMy work centers around the idea of “play,” both through its creation and content. I am attracted to art that engages the viewer physically and emotionally, and am also interested in my own playful interaction with different media – in gestural paintings, sculptural landscapes, and narrative drawings. I particularly consider the action of play through the immediacy, ephemerality, and chance of watercolor, a medium that I apply quickly and find is constantly running away from me, like a childhood memory or a dream after awakening.
Play is also, though, a venue for expressing repression and invoking nostalgia. In the play space, repressed sexual, gendered, socially hierarchical and otherwise taboo curiosities may be experimented with. The word “play” itself straddles both the innocent child world and sexual adult one. As such, it represents a lost naiveté, while simultaneously questioning the authenticity of that innocent child-state |
About |
I grew up in the Bay Area and have a passion for exploring and collaborating in art and in life. I work mostly in watercolor on paper. I also have experience making sets/props, murals, posters, newspaper/magazine illustration, and artwork/design for albums, websites, and marketing material.
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EducationScenic Work |
2014 B.A. Art Practice and English, University of California, Berkeley event, theater, and set design work
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Exhibitions |
currently showing work at:
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