After a twenty year hiatus, I returned to painting in 2022. I had questions I couldn’t ignore, chief among them was “What is beauty, and why does it still matter?”
My recent early work was intuitive and abstract, driven by the conversation among forms, color, and surface. But abstraction alone could not express what I needed to say. So I introduced the figure—faces, bodies, fragments—and with that shift came the work's true subject: the psychological interior, the weight of past trauma, and the relentless cultural pressure on women to conform to a standard of appearance that is both constructed and punishing.
Beauty remains the question at the center of my practice. Not as an ideal to be achieved, but as a contested, unstable territory—one that my paintings enter through the body, through distortion, and through the willingness to let what is raw and difficult be visible on the surface.
Education
2006 MFA University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (Painting/Drawing)
2003 MA New York University, New York, NY (Painting)
2000 BFA School of Art Institute, Chicago (Painting/Drawing)
BA University of Illinois at Chicago (English)
Exhibitions
March 2026 Inspired By, North Shore Art Center, Wilmette, IL
September 2025 Open Studio Exhibition, Lake Forest, IL
May 2025 Inspired By, North Shore Art Center, Wilmette, IL
March 2025 Open Studio Exhibition, Lake Forest, IL
February 2025 Water North Shore Art Center, Wilmette IL
January 2025 Member Show, Deerpath Art Lg, Lake Forest, IL
December 2024 On View, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
November 2023 Open Studio Exhibition, Lake Forest, IL
Permanent Collections
Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage
Truman College, Chicago
Numerous Private Collections
Solitude V-16x12in.-Acrylic on Panel-2025