I am a visual artist who explores the ephemeral and subjective space where place and perception meet. My practice uses the tactile, mutable, and ‘chance’ qualities of different mediums to explore research on science and the senses, and to consider the complexities in the simple act of looking and how we make sense of the world. As we observe, layer, and overlook countless details to compose unique and momentary landscapes, I consider how much our experiences shape our ‘sense of place,’ and to what degree our surroundings influence these encounters.
Having recently moved from the year-round blinding daylight of Los Angeles to the seasonal light-allotments of northern Washington, my recent work looks at the transforming natures of light and time, and their ability to reveal, suggest, and change what and how we see. Each series is an ongoing investigation into the different ways we experience space, and how that is continually in flux, inexact, and subject to new perspective. My artist books and collaborations are published under the imprint ‘subtext press,’ and explore how we perceive space, duration, what may be overlooked, and what doesn’t need to be said.
BIO
Born in Washington, D.C. and currently living in Washington state, I have lived more than a dozen places in between. I received an MFA, with honors, from San Francisco State University, and am the recipient of awards, including The Bryan Robertson Trust Award (UK) and the Murphy, Cadogan, & Phelan Fellowship (CA). I have been an artist-in-residence at Praxis Fiber Arts in Cleveland (2025), PLAYA Art & Science Residency in Oregon (2020), Skylight Studio in Los Angeles (2015-2019), and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley (2000-2015). My work is in public and private collections, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally. I taught letterpress, printmaking, and book arts in the San Francisco bay area, and was a master letterpress printer for Kala artist commissions. I have participated in international artist book fairs, often with collaborator billy ocallaghan, like Printed Matter’s NY Art Book (2015), CODEX Art Book Fair & Symposium (2015-2019, 2024), and the Tokyo Art Book Fair (2016, 2017).
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I am deeply grateful for the amazing forest, mountain, and coastal environments of Northern Washington, and acknowledge that I live and work on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin, throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed, from time immemorial.
