Resonance Series
Photo by Henry Marte, Marte Media
Liberty Series
The large paintings in this series are based on the MRI scans that led to my father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Painted in black, white, and silver, they are larger-than-life renderings that offer an impossible view inside his brain. Attached to the surfaces with magnets are torn strips of canvas and pieces from my father’s hardware collection—metal parts he saved over many years to repair our family home. These jars of tiny components fascinated me as a child and speak to the quiet wonder and care parents often provide for their children.
More recently, the work has moved off the wall and into space. Finished paintings are deconstructed—unstretched, suspended, or draped over dismantled furniture—to reflect the physical and emotional fragmentation that comes with illness and memory loss. These sculptural forms push the paintings to behave more like bodies: vulnerable, compromised, and exposed.
A disease with no cure makes us want to do something, even when nothing can be done. I believe that looking closely, grieving together, and acknowledging our helplessness can lead us toward a kind of acceptance. Opening ourselves to the deep brokenness of life may ultimately be what holds us together.
Photo by Henry Marte, Marte Media
My Liberty Series paintings explore themes of freedom and equality, presenting these ideals as both formidable and fractured. The work seeks to engage with them in ways that acknowledge complexity, contradiction, and transformation.
Each piece begins with a photographic image that I fold by hand, giving it a new, dimensional form. The folds introduce disruption, but also suggest resilience—allowing familiar images to be reconfigured and reinterpreted. I then translate these delicate paper constructions into large-scale paintings, fixing transitional moments into a solid, lasting form.
As a white American woman raised in the 1980s, I grew up with the belief that liberty and equality were inevitable and always progressing. These paintings challenge that assumption and reflect on the uncertainty and possibility of our current era.
The Statue of Liberty is a shared American icon, yet one with shifting meanings depending on individual experience. The Liberty Series considers those multiple meanings and asks what shared ideals look like in a time of change.