I am a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the South Bay Area. I received my Master’s degree in Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. My artistic practice bridges studio work, community-based projects, and large-scale public art.
In my studio work, I create works that explore themes of connectivity, belonging, memory and storytelling. I enjoy transforming everyday objects into whimsical creations and seeking new ways in which materials speak to each other. I am interested in tactile memory and revisiting the craft projects of my youth. Amplifying, utilizing, and re-imagining those crafting methods in the process of my current work.
In my community-based practice I see art as an opportunity for shared authorship and belonging. I design and facilitate projects where I invite people to take part in physically creating permanent large-scale sculptures, murals and functioning art pieces using mediums of mosaics, ceramic, cement, glass, and metal. I am passionate about facilitating projects that have the potential to foster human connection and where the process is as meaningful as the completed artwork.
In addition to my own public artworks, I collaborate with artists and engineers as a fabricator and installer building the structural systems that support large-scale installations and ensuring their safe realization.
Across all parts of my practice–studio, public, collaborative, and technical–I believe that art can transform spaces and build our connections to one another.