I make work with acrylic, spray paint, flashe and oil while exploring low-relief sculptural elements to craft paintings that expound upon societal structures through “carchitecture.” My practice revolves around education and grasping at knowledge woven into the fabric of the everyday so deeply that it feels impossible to comprehend without drowning in the weight of what is to be learned.

My current work revolves around existing in a city that is built for cars, not for people- where instead of finding human connection and a rich sidewalk tapestry, our cities are overshadowed by suburban sprawl and the pursuit of individual gain. I investigate the abandonment of public transit and how our current planning model contributes to environmental degradation, social inequity and a pervasive sense of loneliness. I pose questions about suburbs being subsidized by city dwellers and the history of white supremacy and its connection to irresponsible land-use, hyper-consumption and expansionism. 

Creating cells, pixels, boxes reminiscent of Peter Halley, my paintings use these replicating motifs stacked within one another to communicate isolation through infrastructure, city and social media alike, scrutinizing  how they feed into the existing system and create positive feedback loops. I explore allowing colors to conflict to simulate worlds colliding and use semiotic references that pose questions about the foundation our modernity is based upon. I created a visual lexicon inspired by Philip Guston that utilized my affinity for illustration and looked to Eva Struble and Tala Madani, admiring the painterly focus and how their use of symbolic qualities do not rely on the representational elements alone to communicate critiques of power structures and environmental degradation.

Viewers are welcomed on a journey about what we experience as “normal,” our perceptions of knowledge and how we as individuals, and as a society, interact and impact the world and how we may move forward differently.