statement

Many artists trade in their perception for a machine. Although photography can help us to further understand our individual vision, when the camera begins to shackle our view, the image loses human interaction. I work from life, utilizing the memories I hold while depicting the objects and people around me. When painting and drawing people, I study a person's specific anatomy as well as my relationship to his or her psyche. And just as light and temperature shift, I am interested in how these characteristics change as I work. The objects in my environment are also a source of inspiration to me. Whether its surface is shellacked or worn, its color saturated or faded, its structure intact or collapsed, an object has a visual history. Furthermore, it has a rich history connected to each person who comes into contact with it. I wish to examine both of these histories.

bio

born: 1987, Boston, Massachusetts

education

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, BFA, 2010

selected awards/honors

Manifest Gallery Artist in Residence, 2013-2014

selected publications

"The Nerdrum School", Orfeus Publishing; Olso, Norway. November 2013

selected solo or two-person exhibits

New Works, Brush Strokes Gallery, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 2013

Beneath & Between, Gaga Gallery, Swampscott, Massachusetts, 2011

Paintings, Roffi Salon, Boston, Massachusetts, 2010

selected group shows

Fresh Paint, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2013

Sensed, Unseen, GASP Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts, 2010