My work in drawing, painting, and ceramics explores dualities--innocence and corruption, spirituality and sexuality, youth and age, female and male, stillness and chaos.

My work is influenced by the tradition of working from observation, but I am equally inspired by the art of folk artists from around the world, and by children’s book illustrations, textiles, and comics.

It is important to me that, whatever the medium, the work stay open--that the hand of the artist, as well as the inherent quality of the material remains present in the final work. I want to tell intimate stories, some of which are my own, but cracked open just enough for the viewer to inhabit.

RESUME

EXHIBITIONS

2018 Faculty Show, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica CA

2017 "Make America,"Gallery 825, Hollywood CA

2016 "Countenance Divine," Gallery 825, Hollywood CA

2016 "Cognitive Faculties," Faculty Show, Crossroads School, Santa Monica CA 

2016 "Exposed," West Hollywood Arts Center, Los Angeles CA

2014   "Moonlighting": Exhibition of Work by Crossroads Teaching Artists, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica CA 

2013   Solo Show "Family Totems," Space Gallery, Pasadena CA 

2013   "Them": Surrogate Gallery Projects, Show Curated by Holly Boruck, Pasadena CA

2011  Solo Show: “Day By Day,”Indie Collective Gallery, Culver City CA

2011   Solo Show: “Imaginary Homelands,” Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA

2011  “Paper Trail,” Happy Gallery, Hollywood, CA

2010   “This Is My Education,” Art in General Gallery, New York,NY  

2010, 2009 “Gem," Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA 

2009  “My New Country”: Curated by Rita Gonzales, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA

2009, 2008,2007  Solo Shows: “House Work,” “A Girl’s Work Book,” “Play and Prophecy,” Indie Collective Gallery, Culver City, CA

2007 “Second Nature," Tinlark Gallery, Hollywood CA 

2006,2008  Capital Group, Artwork in collection, Los Angeles, CA 

2005 “Portraits” Show, L Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA 

2003- 2007 Lendrum Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 

2009, 2005, 2003  “Fresh Start”: Group Show, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles,CA 

2003 Solo Show: Axel Raben Gallery, New York, NY 

2002  “Fantasyland”: D’Amelio Terras Gallery New York, NY  

2002   “Abundant Sugar,”Brewery Art Center, Los Angeles, CA 

2001   “Alternative Photographic Processes,” The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 

2001   “Spitting Image: Myth and Creation of Feminine Identity,”Art Gallery at Stamford, University of Connecticut, Stanford, CT

2000  “Flat File,” Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn NY 

2000   “Bridges,” Waqas Wajahat, Curator, DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn NY

2000   ArtAdvocate.com, Artwork on website

1999  "Size Matters," Mike Weiss, Curator, GAle GAtes et al., Brooklyn, NY

1999   "National Competition,"Graham Nickson, Juror, First Street Gallery, New York, NY 

1999  "National Competition," Lisa Dennison, Juror, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY 

1998 "What's in a Dress," Laurie Seeman Gallery, Nyack, NY

1997  "Winter Show," Cecile Kahn, Curator Painting Center, New York, NY 

1997 Group Show, William Bailey Juror, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

1997 "Color Schemes,"Anne McKeown Curator, Axis Gallery, Philadelphia,PA 

1996  “Pet Paintings,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston MA 

1996 Works on Paper, Jonathan Shimony Curator, Z Space, Paris, France

1994 "A Change of Perception," Elizabeth Hazan, Curator, New York Studio School, New York, NY  

1991,92 Solo Painting Shows, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA 

EDUCATION

1995  Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, M.F.A. Degree in Painting and Printmaking 

1991-1993 New York Studio School, New York, NY            

1988 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, B.A. Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors

WORK EXPERIENCE

2011-present  Crossroads Elementary School, Santa Monica CA,  Head of Elementary School Art Program. Grades K-5 

2010  ArtStarCamp, Los Angeles CA, Founder and teacher. Fine arts education for children ages 6-12

2010  IKAR Preschool, Los Angeles CA, Preschool’s Art Teacher and Art Consultant 

2011 Hands On 3rd, Los Angeles,Teacher of adult art classes 

2009-2010 Larchmont Charter School, Los Angeles, CA, Part-time Art Teacher for grades 2nd- 5th and teacher of after-school classes

2004- 2006 Santa Monica College, Los Angeles, CA, Instructor in Drawing and Painting

2000  Pratt School of Art and Design, Department of Education, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor 

2000 NYU Department of Art, New York, NY, Instructor in Painting

1999- 2000 92nd Street Y Art Center, New York, NY, Instructor in Painting and Drawing 

1997-2000 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, Lecturer in Painting/Printmaking

1996-1997 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Artist-in-Residence        

1995-96 Learning Through Expanded Arts Program (L.E.A.P.), New York, NY, Teaching consultant for art workshops designed to enrich the curriculum in public schools in New York City

HONORS AND AWARDS

2009 Los Angeles Artists Association (LAAA) : Admission by juried screening process. LAAA is a non-profit artists' exhibition space  

1998 Vermont Studio Center, Yale School of Art Fellowship: Full scholarship for residence at the Center 

1995 Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship:Funds awarded to study tribal painting in village India, Yale University School of Art

1994 Arnold Bittleman Memorial Prize: Outstanding first-year student in drawing, Yale University School of Art

1994 Prize for Overall Excellence and Distinction in Painting, New York Studio School

1992 The Vera List Scholarship, funds to study at New York Studio School

1988 The George P. Gardner Travelling Fellowship: Funds awarded to study Islamic calligraphy and miniature painting in Egypt, Harvard University





Photo by Sam James