BIO
I grew up in New York City and live in the Hudson Valley with a studio practice in Tivoli, NY. I teach private art lessons, weekly children's ceramics classes at Cone Zero in Catskill, NY, tween and teen drawing and painting classes at Square 1 in Catskill, NY and a weekly art class for Senior Citizens at The New York Irish Center in Queens, NY. I'm a freelance illustrator and studio assistant to artist and professor Julianne Swartz. I graduated from Hunter College High School in 2015 and received a BA in Studio Art from Bard College in 2020.
"Creative projects were always important to me, but at a certain point they became essential. Having a portable practice meant that I could take my safe place anywhere. When I developed a serious autoimmune disease in high school, my world became even smaller. Living one’s entire life from home is not new for those with chronic illness. I found great comfort in having control over physical materials and spaces when I had so little control elsewhere. Repetitive mark making became a therapeutic measure, though I never considered it fine art.“Small Packages” is meant to validate the hobbies, crafts, and coping mechanisms that I’ve developed by putting them together to create something substantial."
-an excerpt from my senior thesis, Small Packages 2020