STATEMENT

My paintings are mid-scale oil on canvas and paper and large-scale acrylic on paper. My prints are monotypes with oil-based ink on paper. Each ground, medium and technique serves to create the most affective image. The oil paintings and monotypes are representational, speaking to a snapshot. They are deliberately cropped so that viewers can focus on the moment being captured and less on the identity of the subject[s]. In this way, viewers are invited to step into the moment. The acrylic paintings are made by pouring, and their puddly stains speak to an abstracted fluidity. 

Painting and printmaking are practices of contact: Two surfaces coming together to touch and a mark results from the pressure. This process brings me to themes of care and intimacy, moments in which touch and pressure (or the absence of them) are what we long for most. In order for me to make an image, a ground and a matrix must come together, and then come apart.

My art practice is about being alive. It is about art-making keeping despair at bay. I work in vignettes. Sometimes I work in synecdoche using images of bodies (individual or in tandem) to suggest a whole moment, world, or relationship. I play with memory, fantasy and experience to capture images that a camera would not, either because they are too intimate, or because they would not normally be deemed worthy of photographing. I represent the human animal–the abject, the sexual, and the communal–as a means of reconciling our impulse to assert control over our bodies and our constant failure to do so.

CV

  • Born Brooklyn, NY

Education

  • 2025-2027: Yale University M.F.A. Candidate (expected graduation 2027)

  • 2018: Carnegie Mellon University B.H.A. (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) Global Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Painting

  • 2016 Fall: Universidad de La Habana

  • 2012, 2013 Summer: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Pre-College Program

Awards/Grants

  • 2018 Phi Sigma Iota- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Early Initiate- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 Student Undergraduate Research Grant- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fund- Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2017 BXA Small Grant- Carnegie Mellon University

Exhibitions/Publications

  • 2025 Heatstroke, Gallery Art &, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2025 Double Dare Ya (Group Show), Citrus Gallery, Syracuse, NY

  • 2025 Touching Spells, Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Cover Art for Community Listening Journal

  • 2024 Twelve by Twelve (Group Show), Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Contemporary Realism (Group Show), Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Small Works Show (Group Show), 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

  • 2024 The Other Art Fair, Zero Space, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2024 Diaspora (Group Show), Perth Amboy Center for the Arts, Perth Amboy, NJ

  • 2023 THE LOUDNESS OF SILENCE (Group Show), Cicada Curatorial, Online Gallery

  • 2023 The Other Art Fair, Zero Space, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2023 Nocturne (Group Show), 345 Gallery, Manhattan, NY

  • 2022 “Six Artists I Discovered at Gowanus Open Studios”, Hyperallergic Magazine 

  • 2022 New Contemporaries (Group Show), Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2022 Artist of the Month, Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

  • 2022 Polysemy Gala: Dual Meanings In Contemporary Art (Group Show), Culturally Arts Collective, Austin, TX

  • 2022 Neighbors (Group Show), Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts, Brooklyn, NY

  • 2020 The Feminine Agenda (Group Show), Women’s Work Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

  • 2020 Ritual, Art Obscura, Las Cruces, NM

  • 2019 Print Show, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

  • 2019 In Between Trips to the Bathroom, Late Space, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2018 Cover Art for Community Literacy Journal, Issue 13.1, Fall: Special Issue on Community Listening

  • 2018 Dot Gov: CMU Senior Group Show, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2018 The line goes on and on, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2017 90: Impressions of Cuba, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA