Hi, thanks for checking out my website! I’m a 21year old student from the Bay Area pursuing my BFA at California College of the Arts with an emphasis on painting and drawing. Everything on this website is available for purchase so don’t hesitate to contact me if you’re interested. I'm open to commissions anytime, just submit a request through the contact form and I'll work with you from there!
I am interested in the body inside and out, my work concerns subjects of femininity, despair, surveillance, modesty, and immodesty. I use collage-like compositions to create surrealist landscapes, common motifs in my work include organs, bows, and lace. Juxtaposition is a constant, framing girliness against raw depictions of gore and violence. As a surrealist portrait artist, my focus is on the unexpected. My work intertwines ethereal femininity, ghostly eeriness, and gore: elements that evoke the violent, the unclean, the visceral. I love to bounce on the tension between darkness and light: fear and confusion contrasted with humor and uncanny cuteness. Livestock, symbols of beauty, and sacrificial creatures work their way into my compositions as an antithesis to the sins of man.
This contrast of gore and sweetness is a deliberate attempt to provoke discomfort, adding a layer of narrative complexity that invites viewers to question their perceptions or conventional notions of beauty and femininity. My inspiration comes from horror movies, absurdist dark comedies, magical realism in art and literature, and works of other surrealists like Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo. I am increasingly interested in collecting source materials from the internet, making my work a product of its time, a capsule of the digital age and the consciousness of the modern woman. During a recent hospitalization, my body was scanned, X-rayed, and photographed providing me with a detailed digital archive of my insides. This painful and debilitating experience has prompted a pivot in my work to be more self-referential, I use this digital imaging to inform a new kind of self-portraiture. Drawing from the aesthetics, emotional, and tonal aspects of these inspirations, my work aims to elicit visceral reactions from viewers. To weave stories through visual metaphor and symbolism about the horror of being in a body, facets of the gaze, and human greed.