My work explores the experience of being alive – the joy of being a body and the sorrow of its many losses. I explore the body as both subject and object, to elicit a felt sense of its interiority and to know its pleasure through the act of painting.
The bodies are the object of a gaze that is tender, occasionally saucy, never distant. Choosing themes of vulnerability, impermanence, and intimacy, I land at the intersection of beauty and sadness. Often, I am attempting to reconcile ideas that are in some way alienated from each other: love and horror, suffering and acceptance. We live in a world where all of this is happening at the same time. How do we hold it all at once? By juxtaposing these opposing forces, I hope to penetrate a deeper truth.
Exhibitions
