Artist Statement

My work explores the complexities of women’s bodies and female desire through collage and painting. Using black and white imagery of women, these collages are rooted in women’s history and empowerment, reframing images into new stories of strength and vulnerability. Alongside this, my oil paintings focus on close-up fragments of the female body, rendered in black and white against vibrant backgrounds. These works investigate intimacy, human connection, and the psychological forces that drive desire- hedonism, sexuality, and the raw honesty of human longing. The juxtaposition of restrained gray figures with bold color backgrounds becomes a tension between exposure and concealment, desire and restraint, and give and take. Across mediums, my practice seeks to redefine how women’s bodies and sexual desire can be portrayed in art. I aim to create black and white snapshots of women’s presence- moments that are intimate, unfiltered, and unapologetically alive.

BACHELOR’S IN VISUAL ART’S MANAGEMENT, COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

ART EDUCATION TEACHING LICENSE, UW- MADISON