Play room

Pink permeated my childhood. The hue was intrinsically connected to all aspects of my being whether it was clothing, toys, bedding, sports equipment, or my toothbrush. The toys, friendships, and experiences linked with childhood all have a presence in my work.

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The familiar is fractured and distorted. Rescued pink stuffed animals are cut up and hand-stitched back together to become soft paintings or interior walls of a room. The act of deconstructing objects such as a baseball or toy reestablishes the human interaction with it. These objects were once created by someone, used by someone, discarded by someone, rescued by someone, and then pieced back together by someone.

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My studio practice is rooted in the materiality of painting and sculpture and includes found objects, cement, fabric, wood, and wax. The softness of a stuffed animal alongside the hardness of cement create dichotomies and visual dialogues challenging representations of feminine and masculine and sweetness versus toughness. Cement is often seen as strong and heavy but when I work with it, I find it to be weak and brittle. The combinations of all these materials contrast one another and provide me with planes, forms and space to explore the playfulness that can be found in life together with feelings of grief, loss, and misconnections.