About My Work
My ceramic sculptures explore transformation through the lens of the human body, animal forms and natural and built environments. I’m interested in how these elements intersect—how a figure can suggest both a creature and a structure, how materials can evoke simultaneously organic and architectural embodiment. Clay is central to this process: it’s a material that responds to touch, holds memory, and undergoes dramatic change through fire, air and water. I use it to create hybrid forms that blur boundaries—where bodies grow tentacles, torsos have staircases with mysterious doors, and surfaces shift between skin, wood, grass, and all matter of being.
Architecture, nature, art history and the material world are key influences in my work. I think of the body as a structure shaped by environment, experience and instinct. My surfaces feel alive and tactile, inviting close observation, sensation and slow engagement. Recent pieces draw from mythology, ecology and the tension between permanence and metamorphosis. I aim to create sculptures that ask eternal questions: What lies beneath the surface of identity? How do our surroundings shape our sense of self? Through these forms, I invite viewers to discover transformation not just in the work, but in their own reflection.
Exhibitions, Awards, and Education
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Innovations in Ceramics, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers NY 2021
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Unplugged, Clayworks on Columbia Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2017
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Small Works, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY 2016
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Adorn; The Female Figure in Folklore and Myth, Hamilton St. Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ 2015
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Let’s Get Functional, Clayworks on Columbia Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014
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Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better, Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY 2013
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Multiples, Clayworks on Columbia Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013
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Go: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum studio tour, Brooklyn, NY 2012
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Form And Figure, Clayworks on Columbia Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012
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Love is Blind, Littlefield, Brooklyn, NY collaborative cabaret development and performance 2011
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Chashama Annual Gala Performance, Costumed Performance Artist in Anita’s Way, New York, NY 2009
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True Fictions: New Adventures in Folklore, Vocalist/Collaborator; collage of music and live cinema 2007
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Defined Mind, Wrote and sang vocabulary building song "Supergirl" for High School SAT CD and Literacy Guide 2004
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Top Soil, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY 2003
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Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer 2003
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School of Visual Arts, Master of Fine Arts in Fine Art, 2003
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Residency Fellowship Skidmore College Fellowship Award in Ceramics/Sculpture 1999
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The University of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture 1991
