I employ and stretch the language of painting to explore how identity evolves over time, place, culture, and responds to local and global forces. In 2010, I was experimenting with translucent and found materials, and discovered that plexiglass was a material that suited me as a surface for painting. It captured a sense of disconnectedness and the presence of barriers, both linguistic and cultural. In order to capture how those barriers are mediated through a culture of consumption, I used detritus of shopping, such as plastic bags, receipts and packaging. I traced these into my paintings, developing a personal iconography. One example of such an icon is the target, which in my work is a corporate logo, as well as a bodily organ, an art historical reference and an object flying in space.
​In 2018 I created a series titled Plastispheres, after the scientific name given to the part of the ocean's ecosystem that has evolved around floating plastic debris and the microbes and other organisms living on it. Plastispheres became metaphors for survival and perseverance in a journey to find an artistic language. A thematic thread in this series is fabric, usually discarded pieces of my own clothing, which personalizes and lends the pieces a bodily connotation.
In 2024 I created a series titled Sand Ghosts, which is about how memories change over time, and are connected with physical changes in the body. I created these pieces by tracing parts of my body on paper, then making them into stencils. I spray painted the shapes of those stencils onto plexiglass and incorporated layers of sand onto the paint.
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I am currently working on a series of paintings on canvas, titled Fantasies, combining spray-paint, acrylic, oil paint and sand. These paintings are constructions of imaginary landscapes that attempt to capture different pictorial spaces, and contain allusions to geographical places, and historical time periods.
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I immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager and studied visual art at Rutgers University and Teachers College. I attended residencies at Yaddo and the School of Visual Arts and I am currently continuing my education at The Canopy Program of NYC Crit Club with Catherine Haggarty and Yevgeniya Baras. I have shown my work in galleries and independent art spaces in NYC, the Hudson Valley and Los Angeles.
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