BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in the Colorado foothills, I hold a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Colorado Denver. I will complete my MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in July 2026.
Working across drawing, photography, installation, sculpture, printmaking and experimental mark making, my practice explores pressure and imperfect endurance through the lens of geology, humor and the relationships between people, place, and the more-than-human world.
I teach Beginning Drawing, Life Drawing, and Fostering Creativity at the University of Colorado Denver. From 2022 to 2024, I served as Program Manager for Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA), a nonprofit arts organization that engages diverse youth through meaningful arts education to spark creativity, expand opportunity, and strengthen community. There, I managed a job-training program for middle-school students.
I have been a member of Pirate Contemporary Art in Lakewood, Colorado, since 2017. My work has been exhibited in solo, group, and juried exhibitions throughout Colorado, California, Montana, New York, Canada, and Germany, including multiple exhibitions in Taos, New Mexico, with Greg Moon Art, Wilder Nightingale Fine Art, and David Anthony Fine Art.
My work has been published in Art in the Time of Corona, Vol. 1 (Dab Arts Inc.), as well as in I50solation: A Portfolio of 50 Drawings × 50 Women Sculptors During Covid (ProjekTraum FN), and Titmouse Magazine. I received First Place in the 2020 Colorado Juried Exhibition at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen, Colorado, and the People's Choice Award at the 2016 Research and Creative Activities Symposium at the University of Colorado Denver.
I live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with my family, who are the warm sun on my back. Since childhood, I have drawn inspiration from the landscapes, rock formations, natural rhythms, and communities of the American West and Southwest.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a conceptually minded multidisciplinary artist, I exploit the literal and symbolic potential of materials, process, and subject matter, often bringing found objects and imagery from pop culture and nature into unlikely conversation. Through experimentation, distortion, abstraction, and humor, I create anxiety-laden vignettes in which discomfort coexists with beauty and communion within a practice grounded in attentiveness and care, and skeptical of easy conclusions.
My work explores the vulnerability of living within systems of pressure beyond our control and the ways such pressures shape our relationships to ourselves, one another, and the more-than-human world. Drawing from disciplines including history, technology, psychology, entertainment, martial arts, and the natural sciences, I use diverse frameworks to investigate contemporary forms of disconnectedness, endurance, adaptation, and interdependence. Recent projects have looked to geology as a lens for understanding pressure over time, alongside the absurd resilience of Wile E. Coyote as a metaphor for navigating personal, societal, and existential uncertainty.