About
Artist Statement
Coming from a lower class community in Buffalo, NY where many including my own family struggled with stability and addiction, my art explores ideas of comfortability, experience and growth through mixed medium. I create work that questions our unique upbringing and its diverse behavioral outcomes. I engage a range of mediums, provocatively expressing how class and environmental conditions impact mental health and social well-being. As a person who is rapidly changing and growing, my art holds many ideas of self discovery. It is a documentation of a period in time, a recollection of the feelings and lessons I’ve learned during different phases of my life. I question how material and process can influence how an emotion is presented and received. I am interested in exploring a media’s ability to express different emotions through process and outcome: how does the act of throwing paint at a canvas differ from meticulously carving wood? How can recreating an object through sculpture have a different impact than a photograph of one? I explore these questions through technical and impasto painted portraiture, photography, abstract oil paintings on different surfaces, ceramics and found object sculpture as well as different printing techniques such as stenciling and relief printing surrounding similar ideas of vulnerability, identity and personal history and how they influence our interaction with ourselves and the world around us. My art is intuitive, it is truly an expression of the world around me and how I interpret it. My art is ever-changing and consciously inherits my strong emotions and radiates all of myself that I have put into it. Every day I strive to learn new ways to express myself in the world I find myself immersed in.