My artistic practice is driven by the belief that everyday joy, playfulness, and vulnerability can serve as powerful tools for investigating the world and forging meaningful human connection. I am a lifelong, self-taught painter and nature writer, currently based in Santa Monica, where I have lived for the past decade. For many years, I was an active artist member of the Los Angeles collective Machine Project, collaborating on experimental projects that blended performance, installation, and participatory practice.
Much of my earlier work centered on public performance art. In 2009, I completed a series of projects in Chicago and Los Angeles titled From Here to Here, in which I connected my house to a friend’s house using a continuous length of thin string. The gesture mirrored the narratives we construct in daily life, inviting reflection on how individual histories overlap in time and how urban environments shape our capacity for connection. The series culminated when I was invited to connect Machine Project Gallery to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of a group exhibition at LACMA. Public response to the work ranged from spontaneous participation to deeply personal engagement, reinforcing my interest in art as a shared, lived experience.
Alongside these public works, painting has remained a constant, private practice throughout my life. In recent years, my work has evolved toward abstract expressionism, where movement and gesture on the canvas embody those same qualities of spontaneity, connection, and presence. I am particularly interested in how honoring these often-overlooked qualities can advance feminist ideals and reshape how we value creative expression.
In my recent abstract acrylic paintings, I explore vulnerability in everyday experience—what we hold, what we release, and the false duality between vulnerability as weakness and vulnerability as strength. Through gesture, movement, and restrained palettes, these works aim to embody presence, intimacy, and emotional complexity.
Across mediums, my work seeks to cultivate reverence for ordinary life and curiosity about the ways we are connected—to one another, to place, and to the environments we inhabit.