As an artist I fit into many boxes, not just one in particular. I like to call myself a creator just as much as I do an artist, because a lot of my work is created spontaneously and intuitively. Some of my work has political notions, while I also like to create playful paintings of abstracted bodies and magnificent landscapes. Some work is more abstract while others depict what I see right in front of me. I try to create using many different mediums, changing up the subject matter as frequently. But what ties all of my work together is life, that which surrounds us and can be found within us.

 

In previous work I have been interested in abstracting the human body, specifically depicting my own. While previously more interested in the gross anatomy that one can see with the naked eye, I am more interested in painting and abstracting the microscopic. Many of the microscopic images you see are digitally altered with bright colors to differentiate elements. To me they end up looking like abstract paintings. I enjoy taking inspiration from these images to create paintings that play with scale in addition to color.

 

I grew up in the Finger Lakes and spent a lot of time outdoors. I found inspiration all around me and now aspire to depict the beauty of the landscape I grew up in through vibrantly colored paintings. In the present day of having high tech cameras in our back pockets, I feel drawn to capturing a landscape as I remember it, not just how my smartphone tells me it looked. I find myself thinking about how the nature surrounding us is a living, breathing, being as much as us humans. The hills are beaming with energy and life just as much as the cells that make up our bodies.