Artist Statement

My work is inspired by my curiosity about and lived experience of the natural world—particularly the temperate deciduous forests, lakes, and rivers of the Berkshires, where I live—as well as by global spiritual traditions and ancestral visual languages. Through drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage, I explore pattern, color, line, texture, and materiality.

My practice is guided by a dual focus. I am deeply interested in the tactility and behavior of materials—water-based inks and paints, oils, paper, encaustic and wax, clay, and materials found in nature—while also engaging with concepts such as time, place, journey, remnants, imperfection, wholeness, imprint, and the relationship between the individual and the collective. My visual language often incorporates grids, uniform shapes such as circles, and repeated forms. These elements frequently function as stand-ins for individuals or bodies.

My professional background as a librarian and language teacher informs my use of structure, systems, and repetition. Through these devices, I seek to investigate the tension and dialogue between uniform structure and the organic, nature and nurture, order and chaos, and the spiritual and the mundane

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CERTIFICATES & CONTINUING EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES

July 2025, Artist Residency in natural dyes, Arquetopia International, Urubamba Peru

April 2025, Artist-in-Residence, Ramsdell Library, Housatonic, MA

2025, 120 Hour Advanced TEFL Course, Premier TEFL

July 2024, EFL Teacher, Carlos V School, Sevilla Spain

August 2024, Artist Residency, Azule Arts, Hot Springs, NC

2022, Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide Certification, Kripalu

2022, 200 YTT, Yoga Farm Ithaca

2021, Health Coach, Institute of Integrative Nutrition

2021, Discovery Program, New York Center for Non-Violent Communication

EXHIBITIONS

Solo

(Upcoming) August 2026, A Thread Runs Through, Knox Gallery, Monterey, MA

2025, Origin Stories, Ramsdell Library Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Housatonic, MA

2024, Untitled. Berkshire Food Coop, Great Barrington, MA

2024, On the Cusp, Stockbridge Coffee, Stockbridge, MA

2017, see forest, see trees, MA Thesis Exhibition, Long Island University, Brookville, NY

2011, Flight, Long Island University, Brookville, NY

Group

March - April 2026, Shared Roots: An Artistic Reunion, Stockbridge Coffee, Stockbridge, MA

2025, Water Rites, Center for Peace through Culture, Housatonic, MA

2019, Awakenings and Past Histories, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2004, (collaboration with Frank Raczkowski), In Flux, Stay Gold Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001, Traces, The Cube Exhibition Space at the Brown Grad Bar, Providence, RI

2001, The Shelf Show, Sarah Clover ArtSpace, Providence, RI

EDUCATION

2017, MA, Long Island University

2015, CAS in School Media, Syracuse University

2007, MLIS, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY

2000, BFA, School of Art+Design, Purchase College, SUNY