I am an artist, a collaborative storyteller, and an arts educator whose practice brings attention to the interconnectivity of the human experience - our intellectual, material, and psychological interdependence on each other. My work is about making work: my medium is dialogue and invitation. I intentionally work in collaboration with individuals and communities to create art that is both personal and universal. Employing pedagogies to engage and support artists at work, I aim to activate the audience as well as non-artists to access their creative potentials. Simply put, I am driven to teach the process of art through my work. 

The breadth of my training empowers a wide range of artistic strategies: I studied art history and studio art at NYU and then received my MFA from School of Visual Arts in the department of Photo, Video and Related Media. As a child, I had a dream that I invented a camera whose shutter was controlled by my eyes. My art practice acts on that dream of creating in real time, across mediums, a camera that captures the full dimensionality of seeing. Ultimately, I believe in an embodied approach to creativity that involves touch, exploration and the use of varying mediums and materials to situate us within the digital and the non-digital world. I have been drawn to many methods and techniques and prefer not to be labeled or hemmed-in by a specific genre.  I am interested in encompassing the full range of what art can offer and simultaneously seeing its inherent limitations, restrictions, and obstructions. 

My creative process begins internally and then connects me with others. I wander, wonder, and contemplate. Daily observational drawing grounds me in the here and now. I visit and revisit sources - historical archives, gallery spaces, interviews, books from childhood, such as The Phantom Tollbooth; I interact with fellow artists. I follow threads of inquiry to solidify the vision for my project. I work conceptually and am led by curiosity. I produce drawings, photographs, and collages. Collaborators are the most important ingredient in my work - along with location and format; together these elements become the driving forces behind the complete artwork. In the past, this process has led to large-scale murals, art books, a photographic series of recreated Bible stories and short documentaries. 

I believe in art as a way of life. The tenets of my art are: openness, play, exploration, and invention.