Art

My artwork explores the fragile balance between humanity's impact on the environment and our responsibility to preserve the systems that ultimately sustain us. Combining imagery from nature with figurative elements, I explore the search for belonging within a fractured landscape. Grounded in traditional relief sculpture and expanded through contemporary mixed-media practices, I draw from historical sculptural methods, merging process-driven and conceptual experimentation.

Working across diverse materials, I illuminate resilience and vulnerability, exposing facades that confront emotional and societal complexities. These artworks reflect our collective need for unity in an increasingly divided world. Themes of isolation, assimilation, and community recur throughout the work, revealing the fragile equilibrium that connects us to one another and to our environment.

My practice involves time spent supporting fellow artists, as well as collaboration and curation of shows. Studio time balances research, problem-solving, and creative evolution, resulting in layered installations and complex sculptures. Materiality is central to my process, and experimentation drives the work. Using wire mesh, papier mâché, encaustic wax, torched copper, brass mesh, gauze, and photography, I move between two- and three-dimensional space, collapsing depth into surface and allowing flat imagery to reemerge as dimensional form. The work is physically demanding and creatively immersive, requiring transformative methods of cutting, fuming, burning, layering, sewing, and careful manipulation of materials.

Sculptures of wire mesh reveal figures whose existence is precarious. In my Exodus series, the delicate nature of humanity is portrayed through these ephemeral forms, creating haunting shadows as important as the physical beings. Capturing body language, gesture, and expression, and how they relate to emotion and character, is reflective of the human condition exposed in these works. Sculpted of co