Originally from Alexandria, VA, I am an artist based in North Charleston, SC. I create mixed-media artwork using diverse materials and processes, inviting viewers into layered, visually rich worlds of embedded meaning. After graduating from the College of Charleston in 2000 at 38, and then having a child in 2002, I made art constantly, maintaining and developing my studio practice along with being a mother and working various jobs. What started in 2002 as painting on layers of glass gradually evolved into my current art practice engaged in the exploration and expansion of materials, merging collage, paint, ink, screenprint, photo transfer, glass, mylar, plastic packaging, and other materials. I'm currently making sculptural pieces, as well as pieces on plastic sheets. I cut up and transfer layers of altered magazine imagery under and over the plastic, and combine the resulting colors, shapes and textures with hand painted and drawn imagery.
Although my media and content have shifted and expanded over time, at its core my work has always been an expression of my efforts to understand the nature of what we think of as "true" or "real". I am obsessed with the commingling of the real and the fake, and our interpretations of nostalgia, and I'm interested in the ways in which we respond to constant content.
My work was represented in the 2004 South Carolina Triennial at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, and in Studio Visits, in 2007 at the Greenville County Museum of Art, as well in two Contemporary Charleston Piccolo Spoleto Festival exhibitions, in 2004 and 2009. In 2011, I participated in an artist's residency in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany, which concluded with a group exhibition. Also in 2011, I was named Artist of the Year of the Contemporaries of the Columbia Museum of Art. In 2012, I had solo exhibitions at both Georgia College and Mercer University, and in 2014 I was invited to exhibit at Mississippi University for Women.
My large mixed-media work was first shown in my solo show, FanGirl, at The Southern Gallery in Charleston SC in fall '17. In both 2013 and 2019, my work was selected for inclusion in the South Carolina Biennial at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, a juried exhibition overview of the best of South Carolina contemporary art.
After completing a residency at the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, SC in 2024, my show Not in Kansas was exhibited there in 2025, and in 2026 my solo show Beauty in Bountyland was exhibited at Public Works Art Center in Summerville, SC.
Most recently I was chosen for inclusion in Jerry Siegel's book At This Moment, Portraits of South Carolina Artists, curated by Mark Sloan and Thomas Styron, which included an exhibition at The Greenville County Museum of Art.