I am a Juneau-based painter whose work examines the figure as a site where memory, time, and internal experience accumulate and shift. Drawing from the Alaskan landscape, Alaska Native art, and sources including mythology, music, and personal memory, I explore how identity is shaped through repetition, fragmentation, and change.
I live and work in Juneau, Alaska, on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Áak’w Kwáan Tlingit people. I also acknowledge Alaska as the homelands of many Indigenous peoples, including Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Iñupiat, Yup’ik, Cup’ik, Unangan (Aleut), Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, and Athabascan peoples, whose cultures, languages, and systems of governance continue today. This awareness of place informs my understanding of space as both physical and psychological.
My paintings often present a figure in multiple states within a single composition. Through repetition, doubling, and subtle shifts in form, the body appears to move through time while remaining contained within a fixed structure. I use grids, panels, and shallow spatial fields to create environments that function less as settings and more as systems for holding memory and perception. Figures are frequently folded inward or partially obscured, suggesting a tension between visibility and withdrawal.
I think of the work as psychologically geological and meteorological. Surfaces are built through layering, erasure, and revision, reflecting processes of accumulation and erosion that parallel both environmental conditions in Southeast Alaska and internal experience. I work primarily in acrylic, combined with charcoal, graphite, and pastel, allowing for continuous adjustment of form over time.
Text elements and titles draw from mythology, music, and popular culture and act as fragments rather than explanations, offering points of entry while leaving interpretation open.