There is a particular joy in excess, a sweetness in the superfluous that continues to draw her in. Her paintings are rooted in the lush terrain of everyday abundance: inflatable flamingos, glossy cakes, bright plastic toys, and pets too strange or too specific to be practical. These are the artifacts of a culture that delights in the whimsical and the over-the-top, and she approaches them with both reverence and mischief. For her, painting is a way of honoring the liveliness of the object-filled life, and of celebrating the sheer volume of images and experiences that crowd waking and dreaming minds.
Raised in South Kent, Connecticut, and now living year-round in Provincetown, she carries a visual and emotional language shaped as much by rural quiet as by media saturation. Her education, first at Miss Porter’s School and later at Smith College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with highest honors in studio art, gave her the tools to articulate this hybrid language of material culture and memory. Time spent at the Vermont Studio Center and later at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown further deepened her practice, grounding it in a community where experimentation and play are taken seriously.
In her work, she gathers and layers references culled from cartoons, social media, vintage toys, thrift store finds, and passing dreams. Each painting becomes a kind of personal archive, at once familiar and eccentric, public and private. She is interested in how disparate images and textures can accumulate into a coherent whole, and how color can function not only as a compositional tool, but as an emotional one. Intensity, saturation, and contrast are as central to the paintings as their subjects. She wants them to feel celebratory, overloaded, strange, and true.
The process is deeply intuitive, shaped by impulse as much as intention. Working in layers, she builds surfaces that carry the residue of change, additions, subtractions, and abrupt shifts in direction. The result, she hopes, is a visual exuberance that mirrors the complexity of contemporary life, fast-moving, object-rich, and always, somehow, worthy of wonder.