I work primarily as a photographic artist, straddling digital and darkroom, drawing on design, writing, and performance arts, and heavily inspired by art historical scholarship. My primary interest is to articulate the weight of Women’s Issues — gendered violence, abortion, and sexual objectification — under the shroud of “inheritance” we all carry, like mental illness, religious dogma, or addiction. I represent “other” voices of women, like myself, who occupy subcultures such as rave/psychedelia, the sex industry, neuro-divergence, and the unhoused. I have exhibited at the ICA, Art Basel, Lens Culture, SeeMe, and LoosenArt Rome. I have presented work at MOCA Miami, was published as a finalist in Photography Forum’s Best of 2015 and have published a scholarly article in the Royal Photographic Society Journal (London, 2016). I have a BFA in photography from Maine College of Art (2006). I finished an MA in photography from Barry University (2014), an MA in art history at Oklahoma State University (2017) and one year of PhD research in art history in Belgium (2018-19), where I realized I did not fit into the formalities of such systems. I since re-orientated myself back toward my art practice but never let go of my research skills as they serve to enrich my creative process. I currently teach art history and photography at USM and spend my winters adventuring, camera-in-hand.
Most recently, I revived an interest in Gum Printing, a process combining pigment with UV-sensitive chemicals to produce multi-layered images from digital negatives. Concurrently, I have been journaling on my experience of Autism following a Japanese therapy practice known as tojisha kenkyu. This work is in its infancy—just a sketchbook. I am searching for ways to unify constructed narratives with collage and color theory to create a fresh idiom articulating my life with Autism. I cannot say much more than that as I am without the full facilities to support such a project beyond the basics of writing, drawing, digital shooting and imagination.
