About the artist

While the work throughout this portfolio/site predominantly captures the work made post-baccalaureate, the artist has played with number of mediums and subject matter throughout their career. Between 2022-2023, the artist used residential buildings and urban landscapes, to evoke feelings of nostalgia for their viewers. Nature and foliage always present within these works; Meant to always connect these civilian elements back to its natural roots on earth.

Work made during the artist residency program in Vallauris, France, highlights these themes while connecting visually to the post-impressionist masters like Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh. Paintings after their residency (2023), depict their community in the Bay Area. These landscape paintings connect the human need for home with the issues facing Bay Areans like housing insecurity and climate change.  

Work from 2024 to the present follows the same interest of capturing natural splendor. The artist current Blood on the Leaves series, follows the artist grappling with the need for art and “pretty images” while living in a country actively funding genocide. Drawing from Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit,” the artist imagines blood on the leaves as a motif to capture violence and bloodshed as a by-product of American imperialism and the responsibility of art consumers of the West to reject neo-colonialism, racism, and the rise in fascism.