About

My paintings use symbolic imagery that draws from Christian visual language and esoteric traditions to explore attention, regeneration, and the ethics of seeing. I explore allegory as a living medium. This allows me to navigate fractured categories and explore boundaries between the sacred and profane, nature and myth, body and spirit, and to recover vision as a form of knowledge.

 I layer various media to create luminous surfaces containing icon-like elements – eyes, orbs, branching form, vessels combine figuration and abstraction in a delicate tension. I’m drawn to liminal, threshold states, where an image might feel devotional and transgressive at once. I am drawn to forms both intimate and archetypal, visualizing a psychological map and mystical cosmology through my work. 

My background in cultural anthropology informs my understanding of images as cultural technologies  that transmit affect and organize belief. I received my MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (2021), and am currently pursuing an MFA from Clark University. My work has been featured at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, by ArtsWorcester, in Worcester, MA, and the Working Method Contemporary and WJB Galleries in Tallahassee, FL.

Currently serving as an educator at the College of the Holy Cross, I am passionate about implementing creative approaches to collaboration, mentorship, advising, and student development. I value engaging in critical dialogue, and emphasizing the value of art and visual culture across disciplines.