Fine Arts
Projects
My work in painting and sculpture pulls from themes of the body, clothing, sustainability, and fantasy.
stitching us together
Exploring my love of fashion, an industry that is one of the leading pollutants, has led me to think critically about the way we interact with our clothing. Mending has been an exercise that I've found fun, beautiful, sustainable, and important in an age where clothing is made to be discarded and our closets are an endless cycle of unloved fabric. This painting documents five of my friend's garments and one of my own that needed mending. I mended each and sewed tags with my friend's initials into their garments. The red thread that weaves in and out of each garment is a physical representation of my friends' connection to me and to each other despite these mends going into six different closets, being worn on, and traveled with.
arcadia
\ar-KAY-dee-uh\ noun, a region or scene of simple pleasure and quiet, an unspoilt land populated by innocent rustics, utopia, eden
Gramercy Park was built in the 1830s and was always meant for the upper class. A trustee of the park claims “Looking at this landscape is a gift to the people of this community. Just to walk by and look at it is a gift." I used oil paints on a wood panel to display the relationship between inside and outside the gates by showing Gramercy as a utopic paradise. A mother nature-like figure lays in the grass emitting light, contrasting the darker, more bleak city outside of the iron gates. I used more messy wash techniques to paint the outside while inside the park is more rendered and smooth.
Pearly Whites
This beaded mask project was a response to the mask mandate, struggling with wanting to connect with people, smile, and express emtions during the pandemic.
Masked
This sculpture was a response to the pandemic. I had this idea that eventually humans would evolve to have masks be a part of our bodies. I have always been fascinated with and inspired by the human face so I created a mask that displays the facial features it blocks. A hand in a surgical glove holds up the object disconnected from the body. ​
Consumption
This project replicates garbage commonly seen on the streets of New York out of a more permanent and beautiful material. I decided to create a crushed cola can, a cigarette, and a plastic fork, all out of ceramic. I painted and glazed the artifacts, adding flowers to each, representing the earth consuming the permanent objects over the years.