A recent Corcoran College of Art and Design graduate (BFA June 2008), I work primarily in screenprinting, etching, and oil painting. I am currently experimenting with combining these media to express my ideas more completely. My art is inspired by observation and the connections, intersections, and interactions that I see every day. I am fascinated by the way that people interact with the world around them, both the animate and the inanimate.

My work can be divided into two categories: identity and music. My early work focused almost entirely on issues of identity, including the study of previous generations of women in my family. These works allowed me to integrate my interest in textiles, domestic creativity, and the sublimation of daily work into the realm of art. The importance of pattern, texture and color in domestic textiles is apparent in these images. This work, and the research it involved led me to consider the dichotomy of fact and fiction in the process of memory recall. How do we remember? What memory is fact and what is fiction? In the case of family history and archival photographs, can we possibly find truth or are we simply creating a palatable fiction?

My most recent work focuses on music and musicians. I am fascinated by the interconnectedness of musicians and their instruments. There is a level of interaction that gives the instrument a life of its own, a sense of the instrument cooperating with the musician rather than being controlled. In addition, I see each instrument as a piece of art and I refer to structural characteristics of the instruments in abstract drawings that are incorporated into the prints. In these prints, photographs of musicians performing or practicing have been combined with the drawings in multi-layered images to convey both the physicality of the instruments and the flow of the music from the musicians and their instruments into the surrounding space. Most recently, I have incorporated sheets of music in etchings, allowing the rhythmic, highly organized quality of the written music to interact with the organic lines of the musician.