Artist Statement

A multi-media artist, I work and reside in Chicago. I received my BFA from the University of Texas and an MFA from the University of Michigan. My work is a process of reckoning. I construct spirit-filled narratives based in place, longing, and impermanence. My inspirations range from psychoanalytic theory to Kachina dancers, and the characters unleashed in the work wrestle with earthly and mystic subjects—time travel, estrangement, migration, rebirth, uncertainty, humor, agony, grief, and delight.

I layer, erase, obscure, refine, and polish in dialogue with landscapes of the everyday and of memory. Each piece represents a journey through these layered and multi-dimensional landscapes. Figures tumble, sail, fly, and walk through unfamiliar and fantastic territory, producing chordal allegories rooted in my meditations on attachment.