ARTIST

I am a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where I received my BFA in Painting.

The paintings begin where the surface starts to break. As materials tighten, shift, and crack, they expose the internal pressures of the painting and reveal traces of the layers beneath. Rather than correcting these ruptures, I treat them as moments where the work acknowledges its own history.

I approach painting as a constructed object rather than a fixed image, building layered surfaces that record pressure, revision, and transformation. Through applying, removing, and reworking paint, earlier stages remain partially visible, allowing the work to develop as an accumulation of decisions, interruptions, and material change.

Working with oil paint, egg tempera, and rabbit skin glue, I embrace the physical behavior of materials that respond to time, humidity, and tension in ways that exceed my control. As these surfaces contract and split, cracks emerge as evidence of the painting's ongoing transformation rather than as imperfections. The canvas itself records its making, retaining the marks of stretching, unstretching, and reworking as part of the finished work.

In many paintings, metal frames extend beyond the canvas, becoming integral to the work rather than functioning as separate supports. These structures expose the architecture that sustains the painting while expanding it into surrounding space, reinforcing the tension between containment and instability.

Through this interplay of control and unpredictability, the paintings become records of transformation. Layers obscure and reveal one another, allowing memory, time, and material behavior to remain active within the surface. I am interested less in fixed images than in the evidence of change itself and in how fragility can become a generative force within painting.