Bio & Artist Statement:

I am a visual artist and designer based in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., working out of Midway Studios and for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I grew up in Maine, spent a year after high school teaching art in Guatemala, then returned to study art at Clark University. This time exploring the post industrial landscape of Worcester, MA., grew into a practice of walking as a method of art production. Walking around the city, experiencing the different spaces left behind by the rise and fall of an American industrial power house in New England, was a break from the natural environments of Maine and Guatemala. These urban explorations were done under study of the Situationist International movement and Psychogepgraphy, the acts themselves in the French tradition of the dérive.

In my mark making I combine influences from Japanese landscape painting and American graffiti through an abstract expressionist approach. My time painting, working with my hands is meditative, allowing me to process my thoughts. The gestures, repetitions, rhythms, are all movements in an exercise of the mind-hand connection.

Another artist friend asked me, pointing to a painting hanging outside my studio, “When are you going to show something else?” I fumbled through a response about how much I had struggled with the one currently on display, and hoped to show something new soon.

Her face lit up, her eyes wide, and she said:

“From our struggles we learn the most.”