My work is metaphorical self-portraiture that addresses childhood emotions and trauma. Recurrent themes are primal memories, family dysfunction and issues with being adopted. Children's books and television programs present a collective narrative in which grown-ups care for the best interests of their children. I explore the pernicious disparity between this fiction and the brutal reality of childhood.
Born: Oakland, CA
Education: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA 2000
Lives and works in New York City
Participant in the Fall 2010 Emerging Artists Show at Rabbit Hole Studio, Brooklyn, NY, Sept 2-30, 2010
Participant in the group show Indifference and Apocrypha at the
F.U.E.L. Collection, Philadelphia, Apr 1-19, 2008
Featured in Vol 11, No 11/12 issue of New York Arts Magazine
Featured on The Creep Machine
Featured in Cultblender
Featured in the online Pendu Gallery
Listed on weirdgermanart.com
Featured in Lady Lamb & Popsy