Artist

• Drawing
• Painting

My educational background includes a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from the California Institute of Arts.

My paintings, drawings, and digital prints touch on a range of human body related subject matter and conditions, exploring the instability of our anatomic form and psyche where excess, exaggeration and the surreal play havoc with bodily perception. The work can be fanciful, grotesque or even comedic, evoking the complexity of grasping and subduing our physicality and the extraneous influences that play a role in our well-being.

In my most recent body of work I inserted cartoon speech bubbles and balloons into the body, which assume the role of antagonist. As psychic surrogates communicating through form and action rather than language, the balloons serve as containers and vehicles for fear, paranoia's and other personal projections and beliefs.

At the beginning of 2010 I decided to take a break from making art in an effort to decompress from graduate school and start a new body of work at a later date. In the meantime I’ve been exploring other creative outlets, such as photography and writing.