ARTIST

I am currently a senior at Rhode Island School of Design studying painting.​

In my paintings, I explore the idea of constructing a surface as a layered record of meaning, memory, and change. I want the work to hold multiple histories, each stage contributing to a sense of evolution. My process revolves around building and disrupting the surface—applying, removing, and reworking paint so that each layer responds to what came before. The cracks that emerge act as interruptions, moments when the painting acknowledges its own past.

I use materials that naturally crack and shift over time, introducing transformation as an active part of the work. Oil paint, egg tempera, and rabbit skin glue—materials with long histories and distinct behaviors which shape the surface in ways that extend beyond my control, tightening, opening small tensions, and generating movements that become part of the painting’s record. Even the stretcher bars and the marks left by stretching and unstretching the canvas enter this archive, holding traces of its development.

On the surface, I focus on how subtle shifts—whether through touch, pressure, or material behavior—continually reshape the work as it unfolds through abstraction. Each piece develops slowly, embracing uncertainty and impermanence, allowing material and process to guide what ultimately takes form. Painting becomes a way of understanding how things change—how histories fracture, reassemble, and reassert themselves, and how meaning emerges through the ongoing negotiation between what is held, lost, and unexpectedly returned.

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