Meet the artist behind the artwork
thinking and doing
My art practice prioritizes process over outcome. While I begin with a vision of what the work might feel or look like, the final form emerges through experimentation with materials. I often use painting mediums, found furniture, manipulated wood, hardware, and digital elements—assembled in ways that resist permanence and fixed definitions. This fluidity reflects my conceptual interest in change, becoming, and the rejection of stagnation. The work often combines painting’s visceral, skin-like qualities with collage-like application and assembly, creating pieces that are momentarily resolved but always open to transformation. Each piece is a snapshot of my evolving thoughts and projections, embodying a resistance to static conclusions.
Curating with Intention
My materials and imagery often reference domesticity as a site to explore the intersection of queerness and the “American Dream.” The chair is a recurring motif, symbolizing my lived experience as chair-bound during the early years of my disability. This physical limitation informed my understanding of social inaccessibility—particularly for queer individuals—and deepened my exploration of questions surrounding accessibility, belonging, and identity. Vibrant colors and abstract forms in my work allude to the ways queer people adapt and reshape their identities to navigate different spaces, creating a visual language of adjustment and resilience.
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community, Resilience, and absolution of boundaries.
Through my experiences and research, I imagine utopian spaces where mastery, preconceptions, and expectations are dismantled. My work invites viewers to reflect on these possibilities while offering my materials the same empathy and grace I extend to myself as I navigate my identity as a queer, disabled artist. Each piece celebrates agency, adaptability, and the inherent right to occupy space—mirroring the queer community’s insistence on self-determination. In opposition to environments that have sought to constrain me, my art asserts flexibility, celebration, and a refusal to conform, creating a dialogue that challenges viewers to reconsider how they acknowledge others’ agency and presence.
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