Artist Statement:

My creative practice is a playful excavation of the overlooked – a celebration of the unique and often the delightfully absurd.

I'm a collector of discarded materials and hidden narratives, transforming the mundane into something extraordinary. My visual work spans a spectrum of techniques– from painting and printmaking to embroidery, weaving, and paper cutting – each a different language for storytelling.

The fiber work I create has a tactile, three-dimensional quality, with embroidery and other textile techniques creating depth and movement. Individual stitches and color fragments come together to create larger, more fluid compositions. I blur the boundaries between traditional embroidery, other forms of textile art, and contemporary painting. I labor over intricate details that invite close examination while also creating a striking visual impact from a distance.

In any media, I am drawn to materials with previous lives. A partially completed cross-stitch, a vintage handkerchief, a scrap of forgotten fabric can be both muse and collaborator.

My studio is a laboratory of transformation, where techniques collide and materials are given new purpose. Every artwork is an invitation – to look closer, to reconsider, to find beauty in the overlooked corners of experience.

MY Artistic Practices INCLUDE:

• Painting

• Embroidery

• Bookmaking

• Printmaking

• Papercutting

• Monoprinting

• Linocutting

• Weaving

• Crochet

• Mixed Media

Collections

• Exhibited throughout the United States

• Private collections worldwide

I’m a Native New Yorker, currently based in Carnegie, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh).