About the artwork
I strive to capture a feeling in my painting - escape, freedom, possibility.
I take photos and find images of places that inspire these feelings. Then I pull the feeling into my body and paint from that place - brushing and blending a big sky, carving out earth, scraping away stone, playing with color. I try to keep my movements loose, fast, big - escaping from my racing mind, freeing my body to dance and gesture, finding possibility in paint.
About the artist
I grew up in Dallas, TX, where I began taking art lessons from an artist-neighbor at the age of 5. My parents regularly entered me in local art shows and contests. One year, I won “Best in Show” at the State Fair of Texas for an oil-pastel still life.
Then in my second year at Princeton University, I had to choose a major. After deep deliberation, I did not choose Art History with a Studio Art component, but Economics. And my path for the next two decades was chosen. I worked at Internet start-ups, got an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, started my own business, and while I continued to paint and make art, it was only ever a way to relax, to engage with a different part of myself.
And then I had a child, and I discovered my business-self and my parenting-self could not coexist. The pull to art had never left me, and so first, I took a half-step toward it - I started an art business, an after-school art program. Then the pandemic hit. And I found the time I was able to steal for myself in my art studio gave me the strength and the peace to get through everything else. I changed. My art changed. And I committed to the truth that the work I want to be doing in the world is artwork.
Exhibitions
Art Auction
Root Division, San Francisco, CA
October 24, 2024
HOME
Group Show at The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco CA
January 13 - February 11, 2024
SKY
Group Show at The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco CA
February 18 - April 4, 2023
SEA
Group Show at The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco CA
December 3, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Associations
Root Division Board of Directors, May 2023 - Present
