Manufacturer’s Village Collective of Artist Studios, 356 Glenwood Avenue, East Orange, NJ 07017
About
About My Work
About My Work
About My Work
My abstract works and dreamy landscapes are born from intuition and curiosity. I give voice to emotions that elude identification and live beneath consciousness, and I evoke those complex emotions in the viewer.
My art communicates growth, transformation, and dualities. It reflects emotional aspects of liminal spaces, transitional spaces between states of consciousness, phased in life, or even physical spaces.
Elements of the Earth’s topography, geology, and other aspects of the natural world are also prominent in my work. There is often a sense of solitude.
My paintings have texture, depth, and movement. To achieve this, I work primarily with alcohol ink and oil paint, which can be reactivated, layered, moved, and removed over and over again. My art is the artistic embodiment of “palimpsest”—a word that describes something that’s altered, but still bears traces of its original form.
The lines, curves, and colors of the ink evolve and blend as I work, and provide an organic blueprint that guides me to the finished piece. My process becomes a beautiful collaboration between medium and artist as I identify and highlight what I see in the paint. There is always a tension between randomness and control.
I get primal, messy, and gestural when I paint, and I frequently eschew brushes for my bare hands.
About Me
About My Work
About My Work
I am an abstract painter based in Manufacturers Village, a New Jersey based collective of artists. I’m wildly curious and constantly exploring, always discovering techniques, meaning, and themes in my art. I love to work without restraint, and I‘m not afraid to fail.
In previous lives, I’ve held roles as a creator of multidisciplinary salons for women, and as a clinical social worker. These experiences influence the way I see the world, and naturally, my artistic expression.
I‘m especially interested in studying contemporary art within the cultural context, and its relationship with other disciplines. I will forever be amazed by—and reverential to—the relationship between art and viewer.
My first solo exhibition took place in September, 2021 at Valley Arts in Orange, NJ. Recently, my work, “Shinrin-Yoku”, or “Forest Bathing”, was published in Wild Roof Journal, an arts and literary journal. I show my work regularly in exhibitions throughout the the New York City area and beyond.