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.”

CV

Current Roles:

• Media Design and Web Content Manager, Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. 2015-present
• Artististic Director, Boston Golf and Social. 2020-present
• Mentor, Big Brother Big Sister. 2007-present

Selected Works:

“Signatures of chiral superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene,” Springer, Nature – London, UK. 2025

“Vashakmen: Laffoley Mind Machine,” re:Boot!, Boston CyberArts – Boston, MA. 2025

“Lentamente” Almost Somewhere – Vague Recollections of a Place I Might Have Been, Atlantic Wharf Gallery – Boston, MA. 2025

“Silicon-Photonics-Enabled Chip-Based 3D Printer,” Cover Artwork, Light: Science & Applications, Springer, Nature – London, UK. 2024

“Atoms on the edge,” Cover Artwork, MIT News – Cambridge, MA. 2024

“Callejero,” Solo Exhibition at the Landau Gallery, Belmont Hill School, Belmont, MA. USA 2023

“Laser-assisted failure recovery for dielectric elastomer actuators in aerial robots,” Cover Artwork, Science Robotics – Washington, DC. USA. 2023

“Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field,” Poster Series, New York Historical Society Museum – NYC. USA. 2022

“A High-Lift Micro-Aerial-Robot Powered by Low-Voltage and Long-Endurance Dielectric Elastomer Actuators,” Cover Artwork, Advanced Materials – Weinheim, Germany. 2022

“La Primavera,” Midway Collection, Midway Studios – Boston, MA. 2021-2022

“Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Microelectronics – A White Paper on the Role of Universities,” Design and Creative Direction for National Initiative, MIT – Cambridge, MA. 2021-2022

“Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system,” Cover Artwork, MIT News – Cambridge, MA. 2020

“Mailart-project – Roze hokjes,” Galerie Tuur, Venlo, Netherlands. 2019 

“Molybdenum ditrelluride light source for silicon photonics,” HiPEAC – Vision – Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Barcelona, Spain. 2018

“Single-photon image sensor,” Cover artwork, Nature Photonics – London, UK. 2017

“Spin correlations under the microscope,” Science Magazine – Washington, DC. USA. 2016 

“Holy Ghost,” Boston Architectural College – Boston, MA. USA. 2015

 “No.4,” Thos. Moser – Boston, MA. USA. 2014

“A Tale of 3 Heads,” Wax Triptych – Thessaloniki, Greece. Laval, Canada. Boston, MA. USA. 2013

“Contemplating Concrete,” ArtForum.com, NYC, USA. 2012

“URBAN LIFE – Cultures – Transitions – Identities,” Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy. 2012

“Itsa Small, Small World,” Family Business Gallery, Chelsea, NYC. USA. 2012

“Young Urban Swedish In a Multilingual Setting,” University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2011