I work with painting, collage, ceramics, and found photographs. Most pieces start with something that already has a kind of emotional or cultural residue whether its a page from /The Photograph Collector’s Guide/, a Polaroid, something dug up from eBay or a sidewalk—and then I build around it using whatever feels right. That might mean cat stickers, popcorn kernels, Rilakkuma magnets, or a broken piece of ceramic.
"Magical Thinking" layers paint and stickers over a guidebook image until it feels like something devotional. "PPX" comes from a memory of peeing with a friend as a kid, turning into a sort of diagram. "Masterpiece" uses cast-off detritus and art supply packaging to test what still holds weight. In my "Learning How to Paint" series, I use Polaroids and pigment prints as starting points and try things out on top of them, learning as I go.
I was born in Manhattan and have lived in every borough except Staten Island. I live in Ridgewood now and joke that I’ll retire to Staten Island once it becomes a tropical island. The work sits somewhere in that space too, between something sincere and something falling apart.
