Bio

I am a San Francisco born and bred Artist and recent college graduate. I am a passionate and curious student of art with a hunger for and addiction to the process itself. Art creation and experimentation has always had a place in my life. I've been drawing longer than I have been reading or writing. When I was practically a toddler I was designing and fabricating my own clothes. In elementary school my dad and I made a plywood Polynesian sailing canoe and boxcar. This led to watercolor, DIY printmaking, and hot glue and toothpick sculptures. I fell in love with figure drawing in high school. During covid I spent over 200 hours crocheting 2D images of a cow skeleton and a cow in full drag makeup. My fate was sealed. Art wasn't going anywhere. ​​

In college, I started oil painting. Initially, painting felt  out of reach for me which only made me hungrier to get better. I fell in love with the melodrama of success and failure.  With a focus on aesthetic flexibility and exploration, I try to push the boundaries of realistic rendering in contrast with very simplified forms. I paint a variety of subjects to discover new stylistic devices to use as building blocks to continue to explore and innovate. Some of these devices include an intentionally limited color palette, using repeated pattern, symbolism, and color contrast to unify my compositions. Although my subjects shift and change, pleasure is at the core of what I am trying to investigate. I am infatuated with blurring borders of pleasure and its subversion, with themes of controversy, consumerism, youth, technology, and media. I use bright colors to play with pleasure, but I am always investigating the darkness that hides behind this thin simple veil of joy. Investigating these themes as non-dichotomous has and will be the core of my painting explorations.