I have an obsession with layers. The paintings, sculptural objects, collages, and installations I make are literally and figuratively multi-layered. I like to think my works bring a feeling of 90’s Lisa Frank aesthetics while referencing Op Art, quilting, Folk Art, Hard edge painting, Nail Art, and general surface pattern design.
I like to explore multiple projects at a time, working in painting, fibers. printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and installation simultaneously. I am enormously influenced by my own emotions and I allow what is happening in my personal life to direct what happens in my studio. My mother, who passed away from cancer 3 years ago, was a talented sewer, quilter, and craftswoman and, in my own way, I am finding a way to “quilt” and “stitch” my works together to create finished “sewn” pieces. These pieces come out of the work from my recent MFA thesis, Busy Work, and are an exploration of staying busy, keeping occupied, and making so-called “busy” work. While Busy Work has its roots in a deep, overwhelming sense of grief, loss, and longing, the works are also celebratory: of colorful lives well-lived and of generations of women making art through craft.
