I am a painter whose work examines female agency and the ways in which women’s labor is often overlooked. I gather imagery from live painting sessions, bits of vintage Playboy magazines, and family photo albums, synthesizing them into imagined spaces. This labor of observing, reconstructing, and collaging physical memories compels much of my work. The artistic gaze, when directed at women, is historically fraught with exclusion. By painting women engaged in domestic tasks, I attribute reverence to these acts of care while referencing how gendered expectations manifest contemporarily. The women I paint are often dear friends and family-members.

My grandmother, a full-time homemaker, is a fixture in many of my paintings. It is this expectation that was placed upon her to behave domestically which I subvert through painting her image. As I sift through her photo albums, I am constantly reflecting upon the similarities between the expectations of women in the past with the contemporary. Using traditional oil painting techniques, I work to create a dialogue between contemporary depictions of women, and their historical portrayal through the male-gaze.

I live and work in Philadelphia, PA.